Re: Polypaudio action plan
- From: John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>
- To: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Polypaudio action plan
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:39:34 -0500
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 12:25 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Walters">
>
> > > Why have every app linking to a complete multimedia subsystem, just to
> > > make ding sounds?
> >
> > Because it lets us avoid coding to a specific, nonportable API.
>
> "us" being application developers (who use libgnome [1]), or libgnome
> itself? Remember that ALSA is a specific, nonportable API, and GStreamer is
> a great big hulking multimedia subsystem... which is great for what it does,
> but Gnumeric, Calculator and Terminal don't need a multimedia subsystem. :)
>
gstreamer is actually very light weight.
--
John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>
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