Re: Pulseaudio

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:09 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:04 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> 
> > GNOME seems like it's far too high in the stack to include a sound
> > server & API - shouldn't we simply depend on it, rather than integrating
> > it into the GNOME platform?
> 
> Could you perhaps consider to integrate it nicely but not to depend on
> it? The majority of users doesn't need a sound server. While it would of
> course be nice to have one that nicely interoperates with the GNOME
> desktop, it would be a shame if you couldn't run GNOME without running a
> sound server.

It's already a dependency, as it's used in libgnomeui and exported from
that API. You can already run GNOME without esound or Pulseaudio, and
that's not changing.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>