Re: Notes from Sound BoF at GUADEC 2008

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 15.07.08 01:13, Lennart Poettering (lennart poettering net) wrote:

> Heya!
> 
> At GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul we had a little improvised Desktop Sound BoF. Here
> are my notes:
> 
> Present:
> 
> - Marc Andre Lureau
> - Jens Granseuer 
> - Bastien Nocera
> - Vincent Untz
> - Lennart Poettering
> - William Jon McCan
> (Did I forget anyone?)
> 
> Action plan:
> 
>        Bastien: 
>            1. write a new gnome-volume-control, directly linking against
>               libpulse, that does all what pavucontrol does, however
>               doesn't suck, isn't written in C++ and looks as pretty as
>               the current g-v-c. (a compact version should be
>               embeddable into the panel, a full version should run
>               standalone. Also see Topaz mockups)
>            2. While doing that he will send Lennart his API criticisms,
>               who then needs to fix them.
>            3. Moves the Fedora Feature page to l.g.o
> 
>        Vincent:
>            1. Check with people (i.e. Solaris, ...) if it is OK to
>               link against libpulse directly from some very specific 
>               desktop applications (such as g-v-c) instead of always 
>               going through some kind of abstraction layer (i.e. 
>               GStreamer, libcanberra, ...).
>            2. Ask KDE folks about how to proceed with PA and lib
>               canberra 
>         
>         Jens:
>            1. Write new sound theme config dialog page
> 
>         Lennart:
>            1. Release pa 0.9.11, so that Bastien can actually make use
>               of the property support of PA (i.e. icons for audio apps
>               in volcontrol)
>            2. Change PA to not save/restore volumes per app, but per
>               role of apps (i.e. "voip" vs. "music" vs. "movie"...). 
>            3. Allow passing of role to gst-pulse.
>            4. Propose libcanberra for 2.24

Before anyone asks: I'll propose it as external dependency to the
release team. I am not proposing it to become a component of GNOME or
something like that.

>         Marc-Andre:
>            1. Post his flat volumes patch for PA.
> 
> Also, we hoped that we can convince Rodrigo to write the other sound
> config dialog page, which would allow configuration of the default
> devices for special roles. Before this can be started, Lennart needs
> to do his items on the list first, however.
> 
> This stuff is intended for 2.26 (though the volcontrol should end up
> in F10 already). I'll propose libcanberra for 2.24 already, however,
> so that people can start making use of sound events in GNOME in more
> places.
>         
> The relevant bug numbers for the patches I already posted
> are: 541420, 539786, 539840, 539790, 368304.
> 
> Questions? Anything I forgot?
> 
> Lennart
> 


Lennart

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