Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Adam Hewgill <ahewgill gmail com>]

Would this require writes of any applications that now currently
depend on esound ?

Colin's pronouncement that any new sound server would explicitly not
be allowed to be explicitly depended on should be applied backwards to
esound as well.

I like the idea of GStreamer as a constant API to be depended on and a
GConf sink for the actual sound server implemented with polypaudio
being that default in GConf.

:o)


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:42:51 -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl> wrote:
> El mar, 23-11-2004 a las 13:27 -0500, Colin Walters escribió:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 19:09 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >
> > > I want polypaudio to become the default sound server of Gnome. Is this
> > > so difficult to understand?
> >
> > If by "default sound server of GNOME" you mean "recommended for use when
> > the underlying OS does not support sound mixing or networked audio (if
> > desired)", then I understand.
> >
> > > While gedit is the the *default* editor of Gnome, I don't use it, I
> > > use Emacs. But I am OK with the decision to make gedit the default
> > > editor. And that is exactly what I request for polypaudio: don't
> > > depend on it, but suggest and use it as *default*.
> >
> > Let's be precise - the important distinction between gedit versus Emacs
> > isn't "defaultness"; it is which of them is included in the GNOME
> > distribution, in particular the Platform or Desktop.  See:
> >
> > http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html
> >
> > So if you are arguing that Polypaudio should be included in the Platform
> > or Desktop modules, then I disagree with that.  It can be recommended
> > for use, but it should not be required.  Put another way, applications
> > in the GNOME Desktop can *not* depend on it explicitly.
> 
> Following this argument, the next step should be drop esound from
> GNOME, because the same criteria should be applied.  And, may be
> don't let any other sound server get into the desktop. Does it
> right?
> 
> --
> Germán Poó Caamaño
> http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/
> 
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