[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Tech roadmap

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> 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> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> 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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