Re: nautilusa and esound

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

esound is mainly a historical dependency when there was nothing better.
There has been talk around moving to gstreamer which allows a user to
pick whatever out they wish, be it alsa, oss or esound.  Someone just
needs to do the work and submit patches is my guess on why it isn't done
yet.

On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:37 +1100, Benjamin Rich wrote:
> I was just wondering why nautilus, and indeed gnome-libs and most of
> gnome seems to require esound to compile. Surely esound should be
> optional? For example, in gentoo, you can add or take away optional
> esound support for most packages, but with things like nautilus, it's
> hard-wired in. This means, if you have GNOME, even if you remove
> support for esound from all other apps, you're still forced to have it
> because of gnome apps' dependence on it.
> 
> I really don't like esound, because it's such a bodgy application and
> I tend to just pipe sound straight to ALSA, and let my card do the
> sound mixing. Is there a reason why this app is still so essential to
> nautilus and other gnome apps? Why can't they interface with ALSA
> direct? esound is just so primitive and awful - why doesn't nautilus
> et al use gstreamer or something more modern?
> 
> -ben
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