On 1/20/07, Ronald S. Bultje <
rbultje ronald bitfreak net> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-20, Damon chaplin wrote:
> Before it goes in I'd like to see a clear roadmap for audio in GNOME,
> with support for things from simple beeps up to pro-audio apps.
>
> I guess this means gstreamer, PulseAudio and JACK. Is that the plan?
esd is in the platform because it already is. Realistically, it doesn't
belong here. Any replacement technology _to have complete feature
equiality with esd_ should be completely optional and a user should be
snip!
That probably means something like GStreamer to make it bearable for
applications that really don't care and just want to play
song.mp3 or
beeps. And that should suffice.
This remark pops up an interesting question: do we really want gnome apps linked to GStreamer to play "bling"? Furthermore, is GStreamer API suitable for a simple desktop applications (nautilus, mozilla, notify, bling API...) ? I have posted a proposal to define an API for desktop sound on freedesktop/dapi/gnome-media mailing lists (without much success) - but once again, we don't care about implementation at this stage (wether it uses a daemon or not, if it use GStreamer or Pulse or anything else). I really think we need to discuss such idea to replace the libgnome sound API. Of course, it would be good to have people from GStreamer/DBus/PulseAudio discuss such idea also.