Re: [gnome-love] newbie looking to get involved

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Вск, 25/12/2005 в 13:54 +0100, Arjen Stolk пишет:
> On 12/25/05, Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev yandex ru> wrote:
> *snip
> > Well, this is very interesting and opportune project - getting rid of
> > esd. It should be relatively easy do do this. I've added some comments
> > on http://live.gnome.org/GStreamer_2fesd about usage of
> > notification-daemon to play sounds
>
> Sounds like an interesting project. Let me just check that I
> understand it correctly.
> libgnome is still using the old esound library for some sound related
> tasks. The proposed change is to make it use GStreamer instead (like
> the rest of gnome.) One problem is that esound offers a caching
> facility that GStreamer at present does not provide, for which a
> replacement will have to be provided.

You are right here. Some notes: gstreamer is only a playing library,
it's not supposed to provide a daemon. On the other side, to implement 
caching and notification, we need a daemon certainly. The most important
thing is that nobody like to add just another daemon. That is why I
suggest reuse existing one (notification-daemon) and implement sound
events there. Moreover if it's designed to handle desktop events.


> > But this is very major task, it's better to discuss it on desktop-devel first.
>
> Indeed. However, before we move this party to the desktop-devel list,
> I still need to get my system into a state where I can actually work
> on this. I suspect I'll have to get the CVS sources and work from
> those. Of course, for testing purposes, it is highly desirable I can
> actually build the code I'm working on. Am I correct in concluding
> that I'll need to get and build the CVS sources? Also, are there any
> known issues in doing this?

Well, yes, you have too build from CVS. Some links located here:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove

I suppose you need jhbuild to make this process easier. The modules you need
to look at this particular problem are:

libgnome  (sound api)
esound  (esd)
gnome-games (actively uses gnome_triggers to produce sounds)
gstreamer (replacement for sound playing)
libnotify