Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:03 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > So, even selecting polypaudio for inclusion in Gnome is not "solving
> > it on the desktop level": it's just selecting an architecture to
> > target.  Whether that archicture is ALSA, polypaudio, esound or
> > whatever is what we're deciding about.
> 
> I think the answer to that is that GNOME should target GStreamer; apps
> use the GStreamer source and sink provided from the GConf keys.  Then we
> simply drop esound, and state that it is assumed that the target
> platform provides sound mixing via one mechanism or another.  GNOME
> distributors can change the default sink key.

Sorry to but in here, but I couldn't agree more!

-- 
John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>