Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 19:15 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:

> I'm not sure it should be a distro-level decision though. Way too much
> stuff is already pushed down to the distro level and it causes lots of
> painful fragmentation and bizarre quirks you have to work around in 3rd
> party software. So I'd like to see GNOME and KDE make a unified decision
> on this, whatever that is.

Even GNOME and KDE together can't override the rest of the world's sound
API and force everyone to use Polypaudio.  Linux has ALSA.  Solaris
probably has something else.  A theoretical Windows port would
definitely have something else.