Re: Pulseaudio

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 22:26 +0200, Matteo Settenvini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to this list, so sorry if I ask something already discussed.
> 
> It has been a while since esound has received some attention - releases
> are almost stalled. Looking at the GNOME wiki, it seems that Pulseaudio
> is the stronger candidate between alternatives, and that it allows for
> quite a lot of nifty things.
> 
> I'm running pulseaudio since four or five months now on two of my
> desktop systems, both x86 and PPC, and I must say that I'm really
> satisfied by it. 
> It's quite stable and has very few compelling bugs for the normal user
> (e.g. when using it as an esound replacement on a machine with more than
> a logged in user it doesn't share the esd socket, or similar).
> 
> It also seems to be actively developed, and is shipped by default with
> Fedora 8.
> 
> Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22?
> 
it looks pretty neat from what was shown at the Boston summit, so yes,
I'd vote for its inclusion, although some more integration work needs to
be done, but I think it's perfectly doable for 2.22.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>