My two cents is that a voice recorder isn't needed ans would only hog space on the new iso. Let's keep ubuntu simple and as lightweight as possible.
Leon G. Marincowitz [email protected] On 18 Jan 2013 2:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send ubuntu-desktop mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-desktop digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Do we need a sound recorder in the default install? > (David Henningsson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:47:05 +0100 > From: David Henningsson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Do we need a sound recorder in the default install? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 01/14/2013 01:24 PM, Iain Lane wrote: > > 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. > > FWIW, I don't think we need a lightweight recording app on the default > install. It's just not a common enough use case. > As for dropping it completely, I'm less sure - it'd still be nice to be > able to do: > > Bug reporter: "hey, when I record from my mic, it sounds like a rubber > ball in a dishwasher" > Triager: "Ok, please record a sample and attach to the bug. Just > install..." > > At that point, it would be good to have something with a GUI, and that > goes through gstreamer, or at least PulseAudio, when it records. The two > that comes to my mind are audacity (not lightweight) and qarecord > (unmaintained). Both are, IIRC, connecting either directly to alsa, or > using the alsa-plugin layer to connect to PulseAudio. > > -- > David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. > https://launchpad.net/~diwic > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > > > End of ubuntu-desktop Digest, Vol 91, Issue 8 > ********************************************* >
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