Re: GNOME 2 Sound Architecture and APIs?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> 	  Q. How would sound events be handled?
> 	  A. Currently esd stores the sound samples and plays
> 	     them back at the request of applications. One possible
> 	     solution is having gnome-session (or another per-session
> 	     process) perform this duty, and then devise a way for
> 	     applications to easily talk to this process.

I guess sound events are just an optimization to quickly send music
out (at a fundamental level, I do not think there is any difference
between telling esound `play clip #3' than playing it ourselves).

Is this functionality even important to have?

Miguel.