Re: Gnome Sound Recorder is alive!

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 21:42 +0100, Florent Thévenet wrote:
> Hi Bastien
> 
> Le mercredi 23 mars 2011 à 18:06 +0000, Bastien Nocera a écrit :
> > I tried compiling it, and got a missing file:
> > recordsview.vala
> > 
> Hum I guess I forgot to update the instructions in README, I'll check
> it. But do not expect it to compile and run since I use a hands-made
> vapi file to access gnome-media-profiles and the version available in
> ubuntu seems somewhat old.
> 
> > Once we manage to update the code base for GTK+ 3.0, I'm sure it would
> > be a good addition to GNOME itself, as a stand-alone application, and
> > have it merged into the GNOME git repository, moving Bugzilla, etc.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> I'm okay with doing a stand-alone application from it.
> But the hard part will be the port to GTK+3, actually GSR depends on
> gnome-media-profiles which depends on GTK+2 and GConf so I guess we have
> to port it to GTK+3 and GSettings (and get some introspection fun by the
> way).
> I tried to port gnome-media-profiles to GSettings but it'd need the
> not-yet-implemented GSettingsList object :-)
> 
> The parts where I need more help are:
> * porting gnome-media-profiles to GTK+3

It's already in libgnome-media-profiles, as used by Rhythmbox and
Sound-juicer for example:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgnome-media-profiles

> * setting up a working autotool script (This thing gives me horrible
> headaches :-))
> * and obviously reviewing my code
> 
> Oh, and I'll try to get some feedback from the designs and accessibility
> teams.
> 
> Sadly I may not be able to get as much time to work on GSR as I'd like
> to, because of important exams in June.

That's alright, make sure that your code compiles already, and I'm sure
you'll get patches ;)

Cheers