On Thursday 12 February 2009 18:41:35 Detlev Casanova wrote: > Hey, > I made some thinking about how it would be nice to hadle video (a. k. a. > video chat) in Kopete. > Looking at Windows Live Messenger official client, Video is embedded into > the chat window and you can't (apparently) hide it. It's a good idea > because you can see only the person you are talking to and you don't have a > lot of windows on your desktop. > In aMSN, video is shown in another window. It's a good idea because you can > have all video windows on top of other windows so you can see everybody at > the same time. > In Kopete, it seems that each protocol (currently, just Yahoo) has to > manage that itself (by showing a video window like the old MSN plugin did) > > Mixing both ideas brings me to this : the video could be shown in a > QDockWidget (or similar if there is one in kdelibs) created by the chat > window so the Video could be attached to the chat window or floating all > alone in it's own window. > > The API could be as simple as > // Show the video widget, maybe remembering last QDockWidget::isFloating() > // (Webcam chat has started) > void showVideo(); > // Hide the video widget (webcam chat is finished) > void hideVideo(); > // Set a QImage in the video widget (channel = Local for local video, > // Remote for remote video) > void setImage(const QImage& img, Channel c); > > That last one could be split in setLocalImage() and setRemoteImage(), it > doesn't really matters. > Of course, this QDockWidget could also get buttons to stop/start/pause > video. > > Some other ideas I had : > * Resizing the video window would resize the video (keeping ratio ?) > * When closing the chat window : do we stop video or just detach the > QDockWidget (would it still be there when the chat window is closed ?) ? > For this point, both aMSN and WLM stop the video chat. > * The widget could also manage everything related to audio chat (keeping > stop/start/pause buttons but with a nice voice icon) > * In WLM, the video can be resized in 3 different sizes, that could be > used too. > * Video could be shown everywhere the contact photo is shown (even thought > it might be a little bit annoying seeing the video one more time each time > a message is received.) > * You might ask "Why not using Phonon for all that ?" Well, Phonon can't > handle showing video (neither playing sound) from a buffer if it's not a > QFile. > > So, I think that's pretty much it. > > Cheers, > Detlev Casanova. >
Work up a patch and put it on the reviewboard. Thanks -- Matt _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
