Re: what we need to make apps use gtk instead of libgnome/ui

[Manuel Amador <rudd-o amautacorp com>]

El mié, 23-02-2005 a las 17:40 +0100, Stefan Kost escribió:
> Kristof Vansant wrote:
> > I think esd should be optional. Using gstreamer makes this possible.
> > But I agree that gstreamer should have a simple api that could replace
> > the esd code. Any gstreamer developers here that can comment on this?
> 
> Hi hi,
> 
> We have the discussion a while ago. The problem was nobody could decide where it 
> belongs to. Initially one can belive all it needs is a simple wrapper lib that 
> offers that API. While that is possible, it would not mimic the behaviour of esd 
> in terms of caching sound snippets etc. (or at least that would need more work).

While polyp did indeed support sample caching, making "building a simple
api" a matter of changing existing code in the current api's
implementation.

> 
> Ciao
>    Stefan
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:33 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > 
> >>On Wed, 2005-23-02 at 21:23 +1030, Alex Murray wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:37 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> >>
> >>>>esd -> gstreamer
> >>>
> >>>Has gstreamer been confirmed as the plan for sound in Gnome in the
> >>>future??
> >>
> >>It has in the sense of for a very long time its been the heir-in-waiting
> >>for all things multimedia, and there is no credible challenger (xine is
> >>patent dangerous, not flexible enough, etc). However I am lead to
> >>believe that ESD is not dead yet because there is no simple
> >>gst_play_sound ("/from/file") type API that is currently in use in a
> >>couple places.
> >>
> >>Polyp audio was considered to replace ESD, but I think for the sake of
> >>simplifying things it was decided to, in the future, use pure GST over
> >>another sound server.
> >>
> >>ps. Did you derive your alias from pasting the first names of your
> >>favourite GNOME hackers together? (bad joke :)
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Ryan
> >>
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