Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] GnomeMeeting in the very near future

[PUYDT Julien <julien puydt laposte net>]

On lun, 2004-04-26 at 17:18, Damien Sandras wrote:
> -1- Modify CVS so that E-D-S support is only compiled in if you pass
> --enable-eds to configure, and if GNOME support is also compiled in.
> That way the default GNOME builds won't have E-D-S support and the
> non-GNOME builds won't have it either.

Nice.

> -2- Work so that GM can be used by other programs.
> 
> About -2-, we have 3 ways of doing things :
> - bonobo support : will work only for other GNOME programs,
> non-portable : REJECTED
> - DBUS support : will work for both GNOME and KDE, I don't know if it is
> portable or not, but it is not ready yet : POSTPONED
> - commanding GM through a local socket (the XMMS method) : will work for
> both GNOME and KDE, portable : DEFAULT CHOICE until DBUS is ready. When
> DBUS will be ready, I will make DBUS the default method for the
> GNOME-enabled GnomeMeeting and the local socket method for the
> GNOME-disabled GnomeMeeting.

I would rather have a nice internal api to control gm, that would allow
to control gm through bonobo, dbus, socket _and_ any scripting language
(all of them at the same time on any sane platform).

Snark