Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] transform gnomemeeting core into a reusable component

["Damien Sandras" <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

Technically it is feasible to do a DBUS component reusable by other
programs and that is the way to go. We "simply" have to discuss with
other developers interested in that component to know what they would
like to be able to control for the conference.

GAIM developers will probably not want that functionnality as they are
moving away from GNOME and want to stay a GTK+-only application. Notice
DBUS components work both for GNOME and KDE, which means that a
GnomeMeeting DBUS component will be reusable in a KDE application too.

Now, on another side, you can only have one instance of GnomeMeeting
running at the same time (most soundcards and webcams only accept to be
accessed by one program at a time), it means that you can only have 1
component active at the same time and in that case I don't see how we
could exactly reproduce what is in your fake screenshot. Notice also
that having several participants at the same time in a conference
requires that you are using a MCU. Coding a MCU inside GnomeMeeting is
possible but doesn't make much sense to me as people don't have enough
bandwidth for that. Relying on an external MCU is possible, but I don't
see anybody who will provide such a service for free.

I think that the best is to start with a DBUS component, reusable in
other GNOME and KDE programs, and allowing 1-to-1 videoconferencing (or
1-to-n if a MCU is used) but have only one video window. Actually, that
component would be the current video window of GnomeMeeting + a few
controls (audio? video?) and a right-click menu.

Comments?

Le 5/3/2004, "Nicolas ANTONIAZZI" <the bestel free fr> a écrit:

>Hi,
>
>In my fake screenshot, I presented three images on the right side. I
>would like that these three pictures represents people in front of their
>webcams. Enverybody is doing conference with each others.
>There is a different volume slider to set the sound volume for each
>person, but it might not be necessary.
>Next to the middle picture, there is a little icon representing a
>speaker. On this one there are small half circle representing that this
>person is speaking, not the other ones.
>
>This is really that I would like to see, but maybe that it's not
>possible with gnomemeeting or gaim to do something like this... I just
>presented the program that I would love to use.
>
>Nicolas.
>
>On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:52, Christopher Warner wrote:
>> I'm already working on something like this for a requirement I must
>> complete in the near future. Did you have any ideas pass this? Also if
>> you could explain how you think the functionality should work. You have
>> three images, are those people in a conference in gaim?? Or is that just
>> two people are talking? I'm confused as to how you see that working.
>> Also really only one volume slider is needed I think, but feel free to
>> expound.
>>
>> Intially my plan is to write a plugin and play around with gaim and
>> functionality and possible limits, then move on and write an api. If
>> you're interested I'll be starting in another 2 months or so ;)
>>
>> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 06:30, Nicolas ANTONIAZZI wrote:
>> > Hi everybody :)
>> >
>> > I'm new to this mailing list. I've subscribed because I wanted to talk
>> > about a feature. I did a bug report but it make more sense to continue
>> > the discussion here.
>> >
>> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135960
>> >
>> > In my opinion, it would be great to allow others application to really
>> > include the gnomemeeting core application inside other program.
>> > An good exemple to illustrate it is : http://the.bestel.free.fr/conf.png
>> > (this is a fake screenshot ;))
>> >
>> > I think that a good objective for the design would be to make a core
>> > compenent able to do this.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Nicolas.
>> >
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