[gst-devel] Patch: add xid property to xvideosink

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:00, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> > Only for properties that are actually user-settable things. XID is a
> > programmatic thing. Showing it to the user is as stupid as asking the
> > user for its processor serial number when booting the computer. The user
> > shouldn't see it. Not even via a property.
> 
> that's bull :-) developers use gst too.  We want to make sure gst-editor
> works well as an educational tool as well as a development tool.  If you
> can't set it from there, something is wrong.  properties are a good
> generic way to do this, however way they are implemented.

Should we expose the file descriptor used by osssink as well?  That's
a closer parallel (imo) to xvideosink/XID than xvideosink/XID is to
any other properties we have.



dave...