Re: pulseaudio vs gnome

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

> >   If you want to avoid delay when playing a beep, then all apps will
> > have to initialize GStreamer and precache an audio sample.  Startup time
> > and memory costs pile up.  It's much better to have a simple sound
> > server (which can use GStreamer) and a simple client API; a full fledged
> > GStreamer library is overkill for most apps IMHO.
> 

There is a patch to notification-daemon to play sound on events with
gstreamer. Of course it needs support for caching right now and for
selection of different sounds, but it can be considered already as a
sound server. Thanks a lot to lack for writing the patch.

http://trac.galago-project.org/ticket/111