Elisa at GUADEC
So I attended GUADEC for the second time... Was quite nice, interesting talks about the GNOME desktop, Online, or not. It was also good to see people I often discuss with on IRC, Jabber or by mail :)
The Elisa talk went fine, but afterwards many people kept asking about our embedded plans for the project. So yes this is one of the Elisa goals, we plan at some point in a far future to see how we can integrate Elisa in dedicated set-top-boxes. But there's nothing real yet, nobody's really working on that. Right now the whole team is working to get a rock-solid Elisa deployed on as many desktops as possible, including various Linux distributions (Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu), MacOSX, OpenSolaris and soon Windows.
The community aspect is also the key. In one year we managed to build a small (but growing!) user community. Developers are now getting more familiar with Elisa and Pigment APIs and we are doing our best to include every contribution in both projects.
So guys, I repeat, just to be sure I'm understood this time: Elisa is not only about Embedded world. We think about you, yes you, the Desktop user :)
#. phil on Tue Jul 24 14:29:06 2007
Some users like to watch their movies on TV rather than desktop monitor, so they switch there and most of the time double-click on video files in Nautilus, Totem or mplayer launches and the user needs to switch to fullscreen...
About fspot and other desktop apps, we will support as much as we can. Elisa will be able to access fspot db for instance. It's not hard to read a SQLite db :)
#. Jkx on Tue Jul 24 16:41:04 2007
You mean, I will use Elisa on my desktop to launch movies, and then switch back the video output on the TV set ? ..
It's Doomdays in my brain today :)
#. Jkx on Tue Jul 24 01:02:13 2007
I'm just wondering, why desktop users will use Elisa ? I mean we all use some great apps to do this kind of stuffs on desktop right now ... Fspot, Ryhtmbox to name a few. Even if the DAP or UPnP support in this software would be nice, it take a lot of more sense in the embeded world.
I guess I missed something, but ...