libcanberra as an external dependency

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus freebsd org>]

It seems to me there is a fundamental problem with adding libcanberra as 
an external dependency.  It currently only supports ALSA and pulseaudio 
audio output.  However, the default sounds daemon for GNOME is still 
esound.  The BSDs and Solaris do not support ALSA, so this leaves them a 
tough choice for sound events.  Pulseaudio replaces esd, but it is not a 
blessed GNOME dependency.

I think libcanberra must have an esd output plug-in at the very least 
(i.e. if not also OSS and Sun Audio) in order to be a viable external 
dependency.  This would go a long way to helping non-Linux platforms 
achieve working sound theme support using all blessed GNOME dependencies.

Joe

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