Hey, In the course of working towards porting our default desktop to using GStreamer 1.0, one of the last holdouts is the venerable gnome-media package, also known as "Sound Recorder".
I discovered from reading around on the web that the maintainer thinks it's a dead project. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679381 and (linked from this bug) that there is a more GNOME3-ish rewrite in progress (which unfortunately doesn't use gstreamer-1.0 yet, but as it doesn't do as many things as gnome-media [and uses Vala], porting should be easier. Bindings do exist now). http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.multimedia/1893 I think we should remove gnome-media from the default install. In addition to not being ported and being EOLed upstrem, it seems to be quite crashy now. There are some bad reviews on the software centre too; I don't think it's providing a good experience to our users notwithstanding the lack of a finished/working gst-1.0 port. If we do do this, should we replace it with another microphone recording application? Is this a usecase that we think is important for the default install? gnome-sound-recorder (the rewrite) would require some engineering commitment to port to 1.0 and resolve bugs (for example it segfaults here as soon as I click 'record' ;-)). Unless someone knows of another suitable lightweight recording app. Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ]
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