Re: Polypaudio action plan

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

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. :)

On the topic of being 'a great big hulking' I would like to point out
that GStreamer is the backend used for multimedia in GPE handheld
environment so we can't be that horrible :) 

Christian