Thoughts on what can be deprecated/removed in mumble

[edm7707]

Mumble has accumulated some vestigial features .... this makes the source harder to work with / increases build times )

• Drop QT4 Remove Qt 4 stuff #3602
• Drop DBUS in Murmur Remove D-Bus from Murmur #1991
• Drop ASIO Ditch ASIO backend #1604
• Drop DirectSound Remove DirectSound implementation #3828
• Drop Speex Remove Speex (audio codec) #3812
• Drop CELT 0.7 Drop CELT 0.7 support in favour of Opus #3469
• Drop CELT 0.11 Remove CELT 0.11.0 #2045
• Drop in-game GUI code Drop in-game GUI code #1172

Just wanted to get ppls thoughts and start a list/discussion about what should be depreciated/ removed

As these changes would probably break some compatibility with older versions... might be a good time to to go with a 2.0 instead of 1.4 (With the heavy focus being on clean-up instead of new features)

[Ytmndissue]

Thinking on this, I do think it's time to remove quite a lot of the old libraries and features, and focus on a non-backwards compatible 2.0 version that focused purely on Opus/QT5 and "cleaned out" a lot of the other un-used parts compiled in.

[sgtnoodle]

I use the client dbus to actuate a push-to-talk button when another user is speaking, but if I'm the only one I'll figure something else out.

[sgtnoodle]

For what it's worth, that project is completely wrapped up.

[Krzmbrzl]

Thanks for the update 👍

[VVD]

IMHO: migrate from Qt 4 to Qt 5.

[davidebeatrici]

We will remove support for Qt 4 in 1.4.0.

[EmperorArthur]

I'd argue that some sort of on screen overlay is actually useful. It's something Discord has and I've seen quite a few people using regularly. Given that Discord is the dominant chat program at this time, I'd say removing features that make Mumble competitive isn't the best option.

[Ytmndissue]

Yeah, while I don't personally use the screen overlay (and if I were to fork and make my own slimmed down of Mumble, would remove it,) removing it from the mainline version does seem like a bad idea unless it was just too hard to maintain. Mumble is indeed intended as a gaming VOIP solution.