Re: Finch and X11

[Michael McConville <mmcconville%mykolab.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 06:16:28PM -0400, Michael McConville wrote:
> > It seems to me that GStreamer should be disabled by default for
> > Finch. I'm a GSoC student with Pidgin/Finch/libpurple, and we were
> > just talking yesterday about where/when GStreamer is actually
> > required. As far as we can tell, it's only needed for voice/video
> > support and sound (e.g. notification chimes).
> > 
> > Should I send a patch?
> 
> I've disabled it by default. Does it make any sense at all, or should
> we just remove the option completely?

People might still want sound, and they may want to use the resulting
libpurple with Pidgin later on. I'd leave the option.