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

[Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas dufresne collabora com>]

Le 2014-12-05 04:33, Tristan Brindle a écrit :
> > On 5 Dec 2014, at 1:42 pm, Tristan Brindle <t c brindle gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like the Windows equivalent is the PlaySound() function[0].
> >
> > So I guess there are a couple of possible approaches if we don’t want GSound to stay as a separate library:
> Having given it a bit more thought, there is a potential (possibly crazy) third option:
>
>
> 3) Add the GSound API to GIO as an extension point, but implement it directly using GStreamer, and don’t use 
> libcanberra at
Setting up GST each time will be too slow. Having GST linked around will 
also have the side effect that one 1 of 0.10 or 1.0 will be usable with 
GLib app. 0.10 is nearly dead, but it's still a little bit soon for 
that. Doing it with pulse will be better, as you can upload your sound, 
and get it to play when needed. Some Alsa code, as a fallback to not 
having pulse would work relyably to. Obviously you'll need OSS for BSD 
and friends.

Nicolas