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

[Tristan Brindle <tcbrindle gmail com>]

(Forgot to CC list, apologies ebassi)


> On 14 Nov 2014, at 8:17 pm, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
>
> hi;
>
> On 14 November 2014 09:47, Tristan Brindle <tcbrindle gmail com> wrote:
>
> > <snip>
>
> sounds great!

Thanks :-)

> > I also have a couple of quick questions:
> >
> > * What is the status of the libcanberra GTK module? I’ve held off wrapping any of the canberra-gtk stuff 
> > as I seem to recall that it was being dropped, but perhaps that has changed?
>
> I was talking to Matthias Clasen about this on the #gtk+ IRC channel
> not so long ago; I'd be happy if the libcanberra-gtk module was
> actually subsumed into GTK+ proper, and we just added a direct
> (optional) dependency on libcanberra. it would simplify the build, the
> dependency list, and the QA process of the library.

Thanks for the info. I’ll hold off putting any GTK stuff into GSound for now then until I know the future of 
libcanberra-gtk.


> > * Is there a procedure for submitting libraries for inclusion into the Gnome project proper? I’d be very 
> > keen on GSound becoming an “official” part of the platform if people find it useful, and I’m happy to 
> > follow the Gnome release cycles and so forth, but as an “outsider” (currently) I’m not sure what I’d need 
> > to do for that to happen.
>
> there is no real procedure: if applications in the jhbuild moduleset
> start depending on GSound, and you commit to maintaining the library
> in a way that is compatible with the GNOME release schedule, then
> that's all that you need to do. :-)
>
> if you want to use the GNOME infrastructure to host your code, track
> bugs and enhancements, and open a mailing list, you can start the
> process to get an account:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/AccountsTeam/NewAccounts


I’d certainly like GSound to use the Gnome infrastructure if you’ll have it! But I read that page and saw the 
requirement of “a reasonable number of patches [to other gnome modules]” and figured I’d probably be refused.

But I’ll put in a request anyway and hopefully we’ll see GSound on git.gnome.org soon.

Cheers,

Tristan