“GES. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Unless you’ve been following the PiTiVi’s development very closely lately, it is often hard to imagine what GES does and how important it is to PiTiVi. I therefore wrote an explanatory page about it and updated the architecture overview on the wiki, in the hope of clearing things up. Let me know if something’s missing or if you have suggestions to enhance those pages.
Also, a quick status update on my call for donations experiment: we now have a total of $121.50 CAD. This is not enough for a hackfest, but certainly enough to pay a couple of beers to PiTiVi contributors at GUADEC.
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the following people who kindly donated some money through Paypal: Felipe Almeida Lessa, Frederik Elwert, Garrett Gandy, Joseph Tennies, Leon Handreke, Pierre Bornancin, Stéphane Maniaci. I’d also like to thank the dozen of people who “flattr’d” us (but Flattr doesn’t tell me the full list of names).
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2 responses to “What the heck is this GES thing anyway?”
Just curious. You use GooCanvas to draw custom canvas widgets… If I’m not mistaken Clutter has the same goal : does it mean that with the GTK3 port you will use Clutter instead of GooCanvas ?
As hinted in my “Y U NO GTK3 YET” diagram, I’m considering replacing GooCanvas by ClutterGTK, yes. But it can’t be done without the switch to PyGI because the python bindings for ClutterGTK are broken. Also, someone will need to take the time to do it. I actually listed that as a GSoC project idea this year, but it’s less urgent/visible than some other things.