[Sugar-devel] Wanted: Record activity port to GStreamer 0.10

[Tony Anderson]

It is important to remember that the Record activity delivers basic 
hardware functionality - it is not just an 'app'.

Perhaps we need two versions of Record. One for the XO-1 and another for 
later models. The 'newer' software assumes more modern processors and
chipsets.  We need to support the legacy laptops with the best possible 
software and firmware. I think most XO-1 users will notice if a new 
software install slows down the laptop. However, I can't imagine even 
one remarking that the audio is provided by gstreamer 1.0 or the tool 
bar is provided by gtk3+.

Our priority is to deliver the best possible educational experience to 
our users.

Tony


On 04/01/2016 09:31 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> Agreed, typo in subject, 0.10 should be 1.0.
>
> I don't think Sugar Labs should be terribly concerned with old
> hardware inefficiencies for this activity.
>
> Perhaps there should be an activity.info field for "suitable for use
> on old hardware"?  ;-)
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:33:02PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>> I think you have a typo in the subject field.
>>
>> Somewhere around we have a GTK3 version of record. As I recall, it suffered
>> from some inefficiencies on XO hardware relative to the work that Daniel Drake
>> had done on his branch, so the switch was never made.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:02 PM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>      G'day,
>>
>>      The Record activity is a camera and microphone activity, for taking
>>      photographs, making videos, and sound recordings.
>>
>>      There is an opportunity for a community developer to port the Record
>>      activity from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and from GStreamer 0.10 to GStreamer 1.0.
>>
>>      The benefit is continued availability of the activity to users of
>>      Sugar.
>>
>>      Downstream Linux distributions are deprecating GStreamer 0.10 and
>>      Gtk2.
>>
>>      See
>>
>>      [2]https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4933
>>      [3]https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3738
>>      [4]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Record
>>      [5]https://github.com/godiard/record-activity.git
>>     
>>      --
>>      James Cameron
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>> Walter Bender
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>>
>> References:
>>
>> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
>> [2] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4933
>> [3] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3738
>> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Record
>> [5] https://github.com/godiard/record-activity.git
>> [6] http://quozl.netrek.org/
>> [7] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> [8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>> [9] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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