annotate pidgin.apspec.in @ 31356:017b7ff5a894

During a voice call, Pidgin now sends constant audio traffic, even when there is silence. Especially on slower connections, this can waste considerable amount of bandwidth by transmitting nothing but ambient noise. I used peak level data from GstLevel? in the input branch of media pipeline to control a GstValve? put between audio source and Farsight confbin. Whenever the peak drops below defined threshold, the valve gets closed, when sound level reaches above the threshold, valve opens again. This effectively blocks sending data over network in the silent periods and in my tests this simple method worked quite well. Silence threshold might need to be fine tuned (or switched off at all) depending on microphone hardware and/or the noisiness of surrounding environment. I will propose an user interface for this in a separate ticket. Future improvement can be adding support for comfort noise (RFC3389), as the line now stays completely mute when suppression is active, which can be a bit distracting. I made a tiny change in level parameter that is passed to PurpleMedia?'s "level" signal handlers. The value converted from dB to percent was multiplied by five. Searching through source code history seems this was done to make the value variation displayed on call dialog level meter widgets look bigger. I think it is better not to confuse future developers and pass the unmodified percent value to the handler and multiply only in gtkmedia.c: level_message_cb() where it has reason. committer: John Bailey <[e-mail]>

# -*-shell-script-*-

[Meta]
RootName: @pidgin.im/pidgin:$SOFTWAREVERSION
DisplayName: Pidgin Internet Messenger
ShortName: Pidgin
Maintainer: The Pidgin Developers
URL: http://pidgin.im/
Packager: Tim Ringenbach <[e-mail]>
Summary: A GTK+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client
SoftwareVersion: @VERSION@
InterfaceVersion: 2.0
PackageVersion: 1

[Description]
Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols,
including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, XMPP,
Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a
modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just add an account using the
account editor.

Pidgin supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique
features, such as perl scripting, TCL scripting and C plugins.

Pidgin is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc., Microsoft
Corporation, Yahoo! Inc., or ICQ Inc.

[BuildPrepare]
APBUILD_STATIC="Xss startup-notification-1" prepareBuild --enable-nss --enable-gnutls --enable-binreloc --disable-perl --disable-tcl --disable-gtktest --disable-glibtest --disable-vv  --disable-fortify
#APBUILD_STATIC="Xss startup-notification-1" prepareBuild --enable-nss --enable-gnutls --enable-binreloc --disable-perl --disable-tcl --disable-vv


[BuildUnprepare]
unprepareBuild

[Imports]
rm -rf include
rm -rf lib/pkgconfig
find -name '*.la' | xargs rm
echo '*' | import

[Prepare]
# Dependency checking
require @gtk.org/gtk 2.2
require @68k.org/libaudiofile 0.0
require @xiph.org/libao 2.0
require @gtkspell.sourceforge.net/gtkspell 0.0
require @gnutls.org/gnutls 11.0 || { require @mozilla.org/nspr 4 && require @mozilla.org/nss 3; }

[Install]
# Put your installation script here
installExe ./bin/*
installLib ./lib/libpurple-remote.so.0.0.0
# do the plugins
copyFiles ./lib/pidgin "$PREFIX/lib"
installMan 1 ./man/man1/pidgin.1
installDesktop "Networking/Instant Messaging" ./share/applications/pidgin.desktop
installLocale ./share/locale
copyFiles ./share/pixmaps "$PREFIX/share"
copyFiles ./share/sounds "$PREFIX/share"
installIcon ./share/pixmaps/pidgin.png
# install and fix the .pc file
# move this to the -devel package when I make one
# copyFile ./lib/pkgconfig/pidgin.pc "$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/pidgin.pc"
# safeSed "$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig/pidgin.pc" "s|prefix=/usr/local|prefix=$PREFIX|"

[Uninstall]
# Usually just the following line is enough to uninstall everything
uninstallFromLog