Re: RFC: GSound, a GObject library for playing system sounds

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 4 December 2014 at 11:45, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> I'm not overly on board with shoving even more API inside GDK just to
> keep the number of libraries down.

Right; but from a 40,000ft view, having to depend on a new *set* of
libraries just to do a *BING* sound probably means our "platform"
story isn't awesome.

> has anybody done an assessment of the similarities between DirectSound
> and canberra? how do these API map to each other? can we do a layer
> that is the minimal intersection between the two (and whatever MacOS
> has) and still be useful?

That is a good question and one I'm not qualified to answer. Anyone?

Richard