On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 18:07 (+0200), Genghis Khan wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:03:00 -0300 > Jim Diamond <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> >>> There's nothing missing or wrong in Ekiga per se. >>> But if we want to think in Ekiga as a component of GNOME (3.x) we >>> shall admit that Ekiga doesn't follow the UI design and the >>> migration to GTK+ 3.x, GSettings, GStreamer, etc., is a bit lagged >>> behind. <snip> >> (I'm not bad-mouthing gnome 2 or gnome 3; I do prefer gnome 2 to kde. >> However, as a non-gnome desktop environment user (Slackware dropped >> gnome many years ago), the "gnome" aspects of (first gnomemeeting and >> then) ekiga have caused me considerable amounts of grief over the >> years. In particular, gconfd has caused lots of problems, and it is >> unclear to me what the benefits are, in particular for people who >> don't use gnome as their DE.) > Before I get to bash GNOME, please note that you can choose not to use > GNOME and gconfd support by using these flags: > --disable-gnome \ > --disable-gconf \ > So your argument is irrelevant (well, unless there is no GNOME-free > binary package available in some repository) I wouldn't quite say "irrelevant". I was using the ekiga slackbuild available at http://slackbuilds.org/ and I see now that it uses --disable-gnome but for whatever reason uses --enable-gconf. I assume the guy who maintains the slackbuild does that for a reason, but I could certainly try recompiling with it --disable-gconf. I do appreciate the fact that ekiga provides these options. > even though I fully agree with your point of view. <snip> >> As an(other?) example, I am having no luck when behind a NAT router. >> I see no gui option to set up STUN. I search the web a bit and find >> out I need to use gconf-editor. Too bad that it doesn't exist on >> slackware, since (presumably) there is no gnome. Ho hum. > I also think that there should be an option in GUI to set up STUN. There used to be. (At least in gnommeeting, maybe since.) I wonder why it went away. Jim _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
