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* [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629902 empathy's new call UI mockup]
* [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629902 empathy's new call UI mockup]
== Dependency hell ==
* telepathy-qt:
** Provides Qt high level api to telepathy.
** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-qt4/
* telepathy-qt-yell:
** Provides Qt high level api for the Call interface (will be merged to tp-qt at some point)
** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-qt4-yell/
* qt-gstreamer:
** Provides Qt bindings for GStreamer
** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/qt-gstreamer
* farsight2 (soon to be farstream):
** This is the library and gstreamer elements that do the actual media streaming.
** http://cgit.collabora.com/git/farsight2.git/
* telepathy-farstream:
** Provides the glue between telepathy CMs and farsight2/farstream.
** http://cgit.freedesktop.org/telepathy/telepathy-farstream/
** (Note: use the telepathy-farstream-0.1 branch with farsight2 / master is to be used with farstream)
=== How it all blends together ===
telepathy-qt-yell provides the Tpy::CallChannel class, which wraps the Channel.Type.Call d-bus object. From this object, we create a TfChannel (provided by tp-farstream) and we wrap it in a QTf::Channel object (provided by libqtf inside the call-ui repository; this is qt-gstreamer based bindings for tp-farstream). This TfChannel object does all the internal communication with the CM and constructs some GStreamer bin (using farsight2/farstream internally) that will do all the streaming. On this bin, we connect our GStreamer sources and sinks using the QtGStreamer API.

Revision as of 14:16, 15 December 2011

The plan

  • The current code is wrong by design, needs to be replaced.
  • Build a simple Qt library that exports the whole call application logic with a QML-izable interface, using QtGStreamer/farsight/farsight utils/telepathy-qt4.
  • Build a GUI that possibly consists of a standard KXmlGuiWindow that embeds a QDeclarativeView, which implements the call GUI.

Blockers

  • Needs telepathy-qt4 to export interfaces for the Call spec.
    • tp-qt4-yell exports them now. will soon be merged to tp-qt4.
  • Needs a QML video widget in QtGStreamer.
    • this is work in progress.
    • we need it if and only if we build the interface using QML.

GUI Ideas

Dependency hell


How it all blends together

telepathy-qt-yell provides the Tpy::CallChannel class, which wraps the Channel.Type.Call d-bus object. From this object, we create a TfChannel (provided by tp-farstream) and we wrap it in a QTf::Channel object (provided by libqtf inside the call-ui repository; this is qt-gstreamer based bindings for tp-farstream). This TfChannel object does all the internal communication with the CM and constructs some GStreamer bin (using farsight2/farstream internally) that will do all the streaming. On this bin, we connect our GStreamer sources and sinks using the QtGStreamer API.