Re: Technologies Page for gnome.org

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:13 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 10:49 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have talked for quite a long time about having something on the
> > website to highlight GNOME's technologies. The specific goal here 
> > is
> > to advertise our technology stack to potential partners.
> >
> > Yesterday I took a quick shot at putting something together. You 
> > can
> > find a screenshot here:
> >
> > https://cloud.gnome.org/index.php/s/mvVbE6bP46CfTGq
> >
> > The page itself still needs some work, but I wanted to get some
> > feedback at this early stage. In particular, I'd like some advice 
> > on
> > which technologies to feature, as well as how to structure the 
> > page.
> > It's already a bit on the long side - it might need additional
> > navigation, or splitting out into different pages.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Based on the v2 version, a few possible changes:
> - Mention that GIO/gvfs allows access to files shared through SMB
> (Windows), AppleTalk (MacOS X), Google docs (is that done yet?), and 
> a
> number of mobile devices (MTP for Android, iOS).
> - Mention Geoclue in the connectivity section
> - Mention ModemManager under the NM section
> - Mention Bluetooth headsets and speakers support in PulseAudio
> - Mention hardware decoding under GStreamer
> - Merge Rygel and UPnP entries as UPnP
> - Mention grilo under multimedia
> - Maybe mention fprintd as a way to access Fingerprint readers?

We should probably mention UPower as well. At the same level as udisks
or systemd?