Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Re: GnomeMeeting-list digest, Vol 1 #450 - 11 msgs

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le dim 17/11/2002 à 14:03, lambert Bernard a écrit :
> HI
> I have very surprising by the answer of Mr Damien Sampras.
> with my poor english i will try to answer.


I was surprised by your remark too :-(


> I tink writers do that for is own pleasure not for the user's needing
> 

Not me, many of the features that are implemented in GnomeMeeting are
user requests. When significant new features have been added, and when
the GUI was redesigned, I always asked on this mailing list the advice
of subscribers.

> for a normal user who try linux he does'nt matter if Suse 8.0 not 
> support gnome and so on. The history is much funny, kde whas not so free 
> 2 years ago and now it has the same GNU and we got 2 desktop managers 
> with no compatibility !
> 
> think about the remark from other users . my one was not against you, i 
> know the job you are doing . This was a "positive remarks"
> 
> I have past 8 nights at home to try GM who will loss so much time ?

You have to understand that it is not my fault. Complain to Suse, ask
them why they are shipping with an old version of GnomeMeeting. There is
nothing I can change in GnomeMeeting to make things easier to install
it. Your problems were related to the installation of the gconf schemas
on a Suse system, they are not related to GnomeMeeting.

Why is it so hard to install GnomeMeeting:
- because most distributions are still shipping with OSS and OSS doesn't
support full-duplex for many soundcards
- because video drivers support on linux is still weak
- because distributions like Suse do not make things easy and standard
to install Gnome programs

What can I change to this? Nothing. I'm doing my best to make
GnomeMeeting easy to use, but I can't make the installation of
GnomeMeeting easier, I can't make the software install the drivers
itself...
I don't want to create a distribution war here, but if you were using
Debian, the only thing to do would be to type:
'apt-get install gnomemeeting' and in 5 minutes you would have a working
GnomeMeeting (provided ALSA is installed).



> And why i try GM ? because i have spend 4 week of my time to try 
> speakfreely, which should more "compliant" but does'nt work with my 
> sound card

More compliant to what? Speakfreely is only compliant to itself and
doesn't respect any standard protocol.

> any way  I got a good answer from stefan Bruens who give me 90 % of the 
> solution. I am stil wainting some more  thing but i had the pleasure to 
> see the gnomemeeting screen and list of users from secomix ils server !!
>  
> regards from a linux supporter   
> 
> 
> 
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