Re: replace esound/audiofile with gstreamer

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 15:59, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > who wants that ? ok for a multiuser system i may understand this but for
> > single user systems that many of us are running it doesn't matter much.
> > i mean i changed gstreamer with gconf-edit to point to my alsasink and
> > done.
> 
> Average users don't even want to know what sound system they are using
> and they shouldn't have to know that.. 

good, then it's easy to port to gstreamer now :) since the average user
don't want to know what he uses. (how much i hate sentences like this,
since linux and derivates are no average users systems). no, i don't
want to argue in the air now. i am arguing about what may be good for
gnome. actually i don't care much about non-gnome users. either it's the
step towards gstreamer or we (we as in generally spoken) stick in the
old things for the next comming years. as distributor you can still
compile esound/audiofile for your customers.

> > with the new alsa9 support. not that it is a bug or something but it
> > doesn't support devfs therefore wants to access things that i can't deal
> > with (but i must admit that i havent investigated into that issue much
> > since i don't care much about esound).
> 
> You are making assumption on users... Not all users want to/have
> compiled GNOME.. 

and not all users want to stick with old stuff. it's hard for me to
follow you since in the gnome channel you seem to follow the way of
having esound/audiofile substituted with gstreamer yourself but on the
mailinglist i somehow get the feeling that you want to keep
esound/audiofile.

dunno, are there any other opinions from people outside or am i alone
with that idea ?

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