Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Ekiga 3.00

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :
> * Ekiga 3.00 should have a new core backend for contacts using Julien's
> code. This will allow more fancy things. Ekiga should be based on the
> notion of "contact" and not anymore on the notion of "calling".

Dynamic contacts, more precisely. The current code for network 
neighbourhood needs the user to click a refresh button. My new code will 
make the contacts appear and disappear live.

> * It should have a new menu (Contact) instead of (Call). The main user
> interface will be a roster. The address book will (perhaps, perhaps not)
> be replaced by a search window allowing you to search for contacts in
> various sources and add them to your roster.

I'm for keeping an addressbook window, but not that easily accessible 
(from a menu entry, not from an icon on the toolbar). We can't put 
things like ldap directories directly in the roster.

On the other end, I already put neighbour contacts directly in the roster.

> * The roster will support SIP Presence and messaging. It will be stable.
> When connected to an Asterisk server, it will show you who is talking
> and who is not.

I'd like to know how SIP presence works ; more precisely, where is the 
roster stored?

> * Ekiga will be able to detect IP addresses changes, when network
> interfaces appear or disappear. It will not complain anymore when it is
> started without any network interface.

Huge work to do in that area.

> * Ekiga will be able to detect when an USB headset or camera is plugged,
> and propose you to use it.

Huge, huge work in that area too.

> * Ekiga will run on windows.

Yes.

> * Ekiga will support the IAX2 protocol.

Yes. Stephen Cook's summer of code 2006 finally.

> * Ekiga will support the H.263 video codec.

Uh... licence issues in sight ?

> * A new manual needs to be written 

Yannick, don't hide : that one's for you ;-)

> * Better NAT support

Hmmmm... new network traversal methods ?

> * New configuration assistant

Based on GtkAssistant instead of GnomeDruid. Yes!

> * Will support XVideo output

Matthias (Schneider) & yourself are refactoring the display code already.

Here you forgot :
* Will have a new tray implementation

Based on GtkStatusIcon, multiplatform, instead of one implementation for 
each platform like now. Luis Menina is working on this.

* Gstreamer plugins for audio, video and codecs.

I have experimental code for the first two ; the main problem is that 
gstreamer needs some improvements to have it work.

We have nothing for the later, and it looks hairy to do.

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> * It will have a new design

Hmmm...

> * It will support presence (not easy to achieve!)

Hmmmm...

> > From the above, nothing is finished. When I say "nothing", I really
> mean, nothing. So, there are the areas where you can help. I think that
> with the current development rythm, Ekiga 3.00 will be released 3 years
> after Ekiga 2.00.

Nothing is finished, but it's not like we don't have contributors and 
experimental code here and there.

Snark