Re: gnome-triggers/gnome-sound/sound events

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 13 Jul 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I'm not sure about sound in gnome-session though, I'm not sure I get
> the point without more explanation or seeing what the patch does (plus
> gnome-session should be as tiny as possible since crashes there are
> catastrophic...)

When programs want to generate a .soundlist type of sound event (such as
"button clicked" or whatever) they ask gnome-session (via
gnome_client_app_event()) to make it happen.

So aside from s/gnome_triggers_do/gnome_client_app_event/, there's no
change from the app's viewpoint (and not many apps use this API anyways).
The main gain is from removing the dependency of tons of apps on libesd
and libaudiofile, to decrease startup time, memory footprint, and
dependencies in general.

-- Elliot
Your freedom to change my source code does not translate into my
responsibility to foist your changes upon users at large.