Le vendredi 03 décembre 2004 à 10:30 +0930, Malcolm Caldwell a écrit : > None of the above. My major concern is gm is to paternalistic. What I > mean is it trys to protect the user from himself too much. > > I work with video conferencing systems. Polycom, tandberg etc. > > The Gnomemeeting maximum of 100Kbps for video is a joke. I know I can > go in with gconf-editor and change it to something more appropriate, but > *WHY* prohibit that from the GUI? I know that there are underlying > issues with accurately setting the video bandwidth, but modern > processors can generate more than 100Kbps of h261. So the question is > why protect the users from themselves??? > To stay simple? By experience many users want things that just work. Now if it is really a problem, that can be easily changed. That's a one line patch. > There are other issues with the ui which make it very > What kind of issues? > While on the subject of gnomemeeting vs other vid conf programs. > Gnomemeeting must be the only programme in the universe where you mute a > microphone by clicking on a picture of a speaker. There MUST be mute > icons withing the gnome project somewhere that can be used without too > much trouble. > I don't know if you noticed there is a "||" on the speaker icon, like on the video icon, that means "pause" on most players. > The last issue is h263. It is available, it should be able to be > included. > Feel free to take the responsability to distribute it. > Now I *know* that there are reasons for all of this, and that some of > this does not come down to the gnomemeeting developers but, these are > still my 'concerns' about gnomemeeting. > > Please don't get me wrong, I like gnomemeeting. This is just MHO of how > to make it better. > > > > 5) Regarding Skype : > > > a) I think Skype has a bright future > > > b) I'm using Skype and GnomeMeeting > > > c) I'm not using GnomeMeeting anymore now that there is Skype > > > d) I think GnomeMeeting has no more interest now > > > > Perhaps we should add : > > e) I think GnomeMeeting still has interest despite Skype > > e) Skype is not a contender for anything I use gnomemeeting for. > > One last thing, There is a big question: > > What *is* gnomemeeting? We all know it is not an IM application that > also does voip. ;) On the other hand, at the moment it seems to be > (mainly) voip application that can also do a bit of video. I think this > is limiting things a bit. > I see GnomeMeeting as a VoIP and videoconferencing application. What would you change? If you answer me codecs, I will tell you we are legally limited. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ H.323 phone : callto:ils.seconix.com/dsandras seconix com
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