[Marketing] Tech roadmap

[Daniel Narvaez]

Did you run into any specific issue?

On Wednesday, 6 November 2013, Walter Bender wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Clock, Speak, and part of Memorize use gstreamer just to do text to
> speech.
> > I would like to have tts provided by Sugar as a service, probably using
> dbus
> > and a api in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. That would simplify these activities
> and solve
> > other problems we have, like by example the keep the language names
> translated
> > and updated in every place.
>
>
> I've had a few false starts trying to port Measure to GST 1.0. Once I
> get that working, Turtle Art will follow (that is why I still haven't
> released the GTK 3 version of Turtle Art).
>
> -walter
>
> >
> > Gonzalo
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>> I forgot a note about toolkits
> >>>
> >>> * The gtk2 toolkit is deprecated and frozen but it will be supported
> as long
> >>> as possible (at some point I guess some dependencies might start
> >>> disappearing from distributions, making that problematic). The gtk3
> toolkit
> >>> is supported, backward API compatibility is guaranteed, it's not going
> to be
> >>> deprecated in the foreseable future. The web toolkit is experimental,
> we
> >>> provide no API guarantee yet, when it's mature it will be the
> preferred way
> >>> to write activities (because of cross platform compatibility).
> >>
> >> The other one to add to this list is gstreamer. At the moment we have
> >> some support for gstreamer 1.0 and some (mostly gtk2) Activities still
> >> using gstreamer 0.10. The 0.10 release will be disappearing sooner
> >> rather than later (I wouldn't be surprised if this happened in
> >> F-21/F-22 time frame). I would love to see us be able to remove the
> >> dependency on two gst stacks, at the moment at least Clock, Speak,
> >> Record and Memorise need to be converted from gstreamer-python / gst
> >> 0.10 to gst 1.0 with Introspection support, whether this requires
> >> migration to gtk3 at the same time is unknown to me.
> >>
> >> Peter
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> Walter Bender
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Daniel Narvaez
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