Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Windows Netmeeting compatibility

[Jeff Mills <piggie optushome com au>]

I'd just like to add my 2 cents.
I dont wish to get into the KDE vs gnome discussion because I'e never really 
used gnome to a great extent to know which is better. 
Although I'm a KDE user,  I think its wrong for the KDE team to pull away 
from the GnomeMeeting app and build their own using GM as a base.
If GnomeMeeting was no longer being maintained, then I would say yes.. go for 
it.
Gnomemeeting works fine for me in KDE, except for the drawbacks of OH323 and 
PWlib, which are nothing to do with which desktop you use.
I would prefer to see the KDE team work with GnomeMeeting instead so that it 
develops as one app.
Wouldnt we get alot further with two teams basically working together? KDE 
team could work on better integrating into KDE if thats necessary. I guess 
you could even have different GUIs to gnomemeeting such as licq has for 
QT/KDE integration.
I'm sorry, but I dont see the logic in branching a project off into separate 
apps when it would be much better for everyone involved if everyone worked 
together on it.

On a side note.... one of GnomeMeetings drawbacks is the fact that it uses 
alot more bandwidth than NetMeeting due to proprietary codecs.

Now that DivX is open source... is it possible for someone to produce a new 
codec using the compression that DivX can give?
I might be way off track here, but I thought DivX was a huge leap in the 
compression of video.
Will it not work with cameras? Will it not be good enough? Can it not be done?





On Saturday 29 December 2001 07:54, you wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:46:08PM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:
> > >>The reason I say it's "possibly" a waste of resources is that I've
> > >> never had a good feel for how interoperable components for each system
> > >> really are.  If I wanted to paste a gnomemeeting window into a kword
> > >> document, could I do it?  How about if there was a "kmeeting", would
> > >> it be possible?
> > >
> > >No for the first question. I don't think so at least.
> > >But yes for the last one provided that they implement it.
> > >It will probably be possible, after the 1.0 release of GnomeMeeting,
> > >to have the GnomeMeeting CORBA (yes Gnome uses the CORBA standard, not
> > > KDE) component in Evolution, or Nautilus (imagine, in the desktop
> > > itself), or OpenOffice, or ...
> >
> > That would be fabulous,  my mind spins at the possibilites.  Is GNOME
> > meeting currently component-ized?
>
> No, but it is on the todo list.
> Great things are on the Todo list :-)
>
> But I think that it will happen after the 1.0 release.
> I'm currently integrating gconf into GnomeMeeting. Gconf is a wonderful
> piece of software that will permit to configure GnomeMeeting from outside
> its UI for example.