Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] GNOME Roadmap - Information Request sfor ekiga

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Damien Sandras a �it :
> If we have enough manpower to achieve it, ekiga 3.00 should be ready.
> The main feature of Ekiga 3.00 will be :
> - support for audio and video codecs on the form of plugins (allowing
> H.263, H.264 to be used through appropriate plugins)
> - a new user interface, more modern, and sexier
> - SIP Presence support (to know if somebody is away, in a call, and so
> on)

Read this twice : we have SIP already, the new feature is just presence.

> - Xvideo support (finally)
> - A better Win32 version thans to DirectX support (sound, video,
> display)
> - IAX2 support
> - And much much more

If gstreamer developers help, we could also have plugins to use 
gstreamer for audio&video devices and codecs. I have already invested 
some time on it, improving a few things, proposing a few others, but I'm 
currently stuck.

> > - Do you have any goals from 2.18 that were not achieved? Why?
>
> 3.00 because of the lack of spare time for the main developers. We are
> not all financed by big corporations...
>
> > - Is there something that is really missing in our infrastructure or
> >  platform that would help you?

Yes, gstreamer lacks support for applications which are not 100% based 
on it ; precisely one of the things which block me : 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413418

> > - Do you have plans to work on other modules not maintained by you?
> >  What are they?
>
> No plan (no time).

Gstreamer got some love already. Bug reports with or without patches.

> > - Do you have any GNOME-wide goals suggestions for the next releases?
>
> More integration. There is no point in doing a desktop if there is no
> integration, and currently, integration with Ekiga is rather weak.

Apart from the fact that we got E_CONTACT_VIDEO_URL, in 
evolution-data-server (which doesn't explicitly show it's also for voice 
only!), there is none to my knowledge.

Do gnomers even *know* there is already good VoIP in gnome!? Ekiga can 
do H.323 and SIP already, both audio and video ; it has avahi support so 
in gatherings people just have to open the addressbook to find and have 
a go! [this currently means clicking on an update button -- this 
requirement will go away in 3.0 : little things which change an experience).

Thanks for your interest,

Snark