Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting Snapshot 1.9.0-20060108 CIF Video

[Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm caldwell ntu edu au>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:02 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 �0:48 +0930, Malcolm Caldwell a �it :
> 
> > > - most users do not have enough upstream to transmit CIF, but still
> > > selected it because it is bigger. Then they complain that the sound is
> > > not of so good quality than Skype with no video.
> > 
> > IMHO this is a bad approach to software.  It reminds my of Linus's
> 
> If you, or somebody else can add the required code so that it works, or
> finance Craig or even Guilhem to do it, then it will be added back.

Damien,  I think you have misunderstood what I was saying.

I agree that if Large cannot work with SIP at the moment then it should
be disabled.  It would be better if it could be made to work, or somehow
disabled for sip calls, but yes - it can't be included if it does not
work.

My comments were pertaining to the you saying that most people cant do
CIF, so it is good idea to disable it anyway.  I don't believe that
*this* is a good reason to disable it.

> For now, I prefer removing it from the GUI instead of receiving hundreds
> of mails complaining that Large size doesn't work with SIP.
> 
> And a popup is not a good idea either, sorry :(

Saying "In my opinion, the average user only has X kbps of bandwidth, so
I won't let ANY user do more than that" is wrong.  Even just removing
controls from the program and burying settings in gconf is wrong.

The amount of bandwidth available to users differs enormously across the
world, and can be very different depending on if someone is a home user
or at a university or... 

A popop is less wrong than crippling the software.

All of this IMHO, of course.