Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:29, Felix Riemann<friemann gnome org> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 23:43 +0300 schrieb Marc-André Lureau:
>> Hi
>>
> Hey!
>
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Andre Klapper<ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
>> > Less than 5 modules with non-low Gtk-Deprecated-Symbols.
>> > =================================================================
>> > NOT COMPLETED (Progress compared to 2.27.3: 9->7).
>> > complex: 2 (gnome-games, gnome-media)
>>
>> By getting rif of libglade in gst-properties, Felix Riemann also
>> helped to drop some deprecated symbols.
>>
>> Felix can probably tell us better how far we are from having all the
>> maintained part of gnome-media free of deprecated symbols. I have the
>> feeling we are close to be clean.
>>
>> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572353
>>
>
> Well, with gst-properties fixed, the default gnome-media install builds
> fine with deprecated symbols disabled here.
>
> Regarding the non-default / deprecated widgets I'll take it like Thomas
> Andersen in comment 9 in above bug: it makes no sense fixing them.
>
>      * gst-mixer doesn't need any fixing and works with deprecated
>        symbols disabled already. (Note, this seems to be used at least
>        in Gentoo when building your system without PA)
>      * vu-meter would be doable but was written for ESD. Alternatives
>        already exist for PulseAudio, eg. with Lennart's own
>        pavumeter[1].
>      * gnome-cd could be doable as well but AFAIR was replaced already
>        (not sure by whom right now, Sound-Juicer?, Rhythmbox?, Totem?)
>      * cddb-slave2 is from what I can see only left as a dependency of
>        gnome-cd. I guess most cd-player apps today use Musicbrainz
>        anyway, so there's probably not much use in fixing it.
>
Why don't we remove gst-mixer, vu-meter, gnome-cd and cddb-slave2
completely from gnome media 2.27. People that want to keep on building
them can use the 2.26 branch

Jaap