[gst-devel] X dependencies

[Benjamin Otte]

Quoting Ronald Bultje <rbultje at ronald.bitfreak.net>:

> We shouldn't create new interfaces or high-level classes for each new
> single property, signal or whatever. *That* is bloat.
> 
Yes, we should - if that turns out to be the correct design.

The problem we are facing here is that we need something, that can not be 
expressed nicely in one interface: A general embedding interface.
Let me give you an example. I've written a general XOverlay emebedding Gtk 
widget. I'd like to adapt this widget to work on every system Gtk supports. 
This means I need to write a backend for DirectFB and Windows, too. With the 
current design - using a totally different interface for DirectFB - it means 
that I can write a completely new widget from scratch. If we OTOH had a general 
video embedding interface, I could write my widget for that interface and would 
only need to embed the part that is different for each backend.