Re: [Evolution] Sound Questions & wishlist

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Dan Winship (danw helixcode com) wrote at 01:28 on 31/10/00:
> > Thus, my question is, will there ever be support for any kind of
> > sound.
>
> I don't know the esound/audiofile/whatever APIs, but it ought to be
> fairly simple to add support. Just add a handler to mail/mail-format.c
> for the various audio/* types.
>
> Actually, the best way to do this would be for someone to take some
> existing sound player and bonobize it. (Or write a new one.) Then
> Evolution could just do a lookup on the MIME type, find that
> component, and embed it in the message so you get a nice sound player
> interface without having to code one into Evolution. And of course,
> the component could be used in other apps as well.

It would be REALLY cool if somebody bonobize'd a sound player (preferably
XMMS) ;) 

Nautilus needs one too for its 'Music' view (right now we (uggh) fork mpg123
and parse its output).

libxmms also won't work for these kinds of purposes (i.e. you need a
component, not a 'fork' of xmms)

Regards,
Ali