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

[James Cameron]

For the XO-1, the best possible is available now, there is no better.

But for the future of Sugar Labs, they should be concentrating on
later designs than one from 2007 that is no longer available and
rapidly dying from old age.

Unless this port is done, upcoming versions of Fedora and Ubuntu will
not have the Record activity.  Won't stop Sugar being usable, but will
be a sad outcome.

You're welcome to maintain a branch for "legacy" laptops, but at the
moment, we have an ENOPATCH scenario; no substantive fix.

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:00:18AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
> 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
> >>     [6]http://quozl.netrek.org/
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> >>
> >>--
> >>Walter Bender
> >>Sugar Labs
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> >>[10]
> >>
> >>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/
> >>[10] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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