Re: Playing a sound in GNOME

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 15:45 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:41 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> [...]
> > Unless the sounds are played out of process.
> 
> I saw an interesting proposition somewhere which was to make the
> notification process handle the sound caching (and replacing esd in that
> respect). That would solve this problem too.

For my use case, I only want an event sound if I'm doing a critical
libnotify bubble, so this would work for me. For stuff like gnome-games
I guess this would work less well.

Richard.