Re: [gpm] Gstreamer usage

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:31 +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> these two old bug reports lead to introducing gst as a dependency for
> beeping in case of critical temperature.
> 
> They however do not clarify why the out-of process call of gst-launch
> and if that's not available a fallback to the PC speaker would not be
> good enough.
> 
> I know this is an older topic, first being discussed on gnome-devel
> last october
> but I have just seen it, and find it weird to need to depend on gst
> and have quite a few lines of code just to beep :)

We already depend on gst in head, and IIRC we fallback to gdk_beeping if
this fails. Lots of machines do not have a pc speaker, myself
included. :-) Does trunk work better for you?

Richard.