GStreamer is fairly easy to integrate with Gnome applications. GStreamer uses libxml 2.0, GLib 2.0 and popt, as do all other Gnome applications. There are however some basic issues you need to address in your Gnome applications. Gnome applications call gnome_program_init () to parse command-line options and initialize the necessary gnome modules. GStreamer applications normally call gst_init (&argc, &argv) to do the same for GStreamer. Each of these two swallows the program options passed to the program, so we need a different way to allow both Gnome and GStreamer to parse the command-line options. This is shown in the following example. /* example-begin gnome.c */ #include <gnome.h> #include <gst/gst.h> int main (int argc, char **argv) { struct poptOption options[] = { { NULL, '\0', POPT_ARG_INCLUDE_TABLE, NULL, 0, "GStreamer", NULL }, POPT_TABLEEND }; GnomeProgram *program; poptContext context; const gchar **argvn; options[0].arg = (void *) gst_init_get_popt_table (); if (! (program = gnome_program_init (PACKAGE, VERSION, LIBGNOMEUI_MODULE, argc, argv, GNOME_PARAM_POPT_TABLE, options, NULL))) g_error ("gnome_program_init failed"); g_object_get (program, "popt-context", &context, NULL); argvn = poptGetArgs (context); if (!argvn) { g_print ("Run this example with some arguments to see how it works.\n"); return 0; } while (*argvn) { g_print ("argument: %s\n", *argvn); ++argvn; } return 0; } /* example-end gnome.c */ If you try out this program, you will see that when called with --help, it will print out both GStreamer and Gnome help arguments. All of the arguments that didn't belong to either end up in the argvn pointer array. FIXME: flesh this out more. How do we get the GStreamer arguments at the end ? FIXME: add a GConf bit.