Re: [hxplay] Re: Helix Player virtual team meeting

[Ryan Gammon <rgammon real com>]

Matthew Berg wrote:

> 3. Gtk has a documentation page which points to a NON-gtk-prefixed
> interface for a basic video widget.
>  

Ok, as a specific example, consider my favourite page, the gtk object 
hierarchy:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/ch01.html

I think it would be tough going to convince people that a [Gtk]HXPlayer 
widget should appear as a leaf to GtkWidget, because GtkHXPlayer is not 
part of the gtk tarball.

Could a media framework be included in gtk? Probably not -- they're big, 
there are licensing issues, etc.

But, we could add some sort of gobject-ified video widget base class to gtk.

I think this would make it more likely for developers to use media 
widgets in their applications, as they'd be front and centre in the core 
documentation. This would be a good thing for us all.

Casual gtk developers would become aware of the presence of the media 
widgets -- they'd show up legitimately and pervasively in the core gtk 
documentation. Media widgets would appear to be a more main-stream part 
of gtk.

> 4. The potential developer looks under "Projects" and finds the existing
> entries  gdk-pixbuf loaders for flash (swfdec), or mpeg/avi (GStreamer).
>
> 5. The potential developer follows the links to the GNOME project and
> finds GStreamer as an existing part of the desktop platform.
>
> Let's not create a false dichotomy here.  There's no reason why
> something outside the gtk_ namespace can't be linked to off the gtk.org
> page.
>  

I'm arguing that there is a dichotomy between widgets (and widget 
interfaces) that are bundled with gtk, and widgets that are not, 
regardless of whether or not they are linked to on a related projects page.

If people see GtkMediaPlayer along side GtkLabel and GtkCalendar, 
they'll be more likely to use it.

--
Ryan Gammon
rgammon real com
Developer for Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org