Re: no need to spawn esd

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:11 -0800, David Schleef wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:26:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > It seems there really is no need to run esd from gnome-session and
> > gnome-settings-daemon, since libesound will spawn it when needed.
> > 
> > So, here are two patches for g-session and g-s-d that just don't spawn
> > it at all. It seems to work ok for me, but please could people test it
> > and make sure it doesn't break anything before I submit them?
> 
> Spawning esd from libesd is the root of all kinds of evil.  I'd
> remove the feature if I didn't expect that eventually someone would
> complain loudly and it would erupt into a flamewar.  Instead, I've
> been fixing apps that use esound to not request that a daemon is
> started.
> 
and how do you do that? I guess we want that also for gnome-session and
g-s-d.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>