Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

El mar, 23-11-2004 a las 13:27 -0500, Colin Walters escribió:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 19:09 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > I want polypaudio to become the default sound server of Gnome. Is this
> > so difficult to understand?
> 
> If by "default sound server of GNOME" you mean "recommended for use when
> the underlying OS does not support sound mixing or networked audio (if
> desired)", then I understand.   
> 
> > While gedit is the the *default* editor of Gnome, I don't use it, I
> > use Emacs. But I am OK with the decision to make gedit the default
> > editor. And that is exactly what I request for polypaudio: don't
> > depend on it, but suggest and use it as *default*. 
> 
> Let's be precise - the important distinction between gedit versus Emacs
> isn't "defaultness"; it is which of them is included in the GNOME
> distribution, in particular the Platform or Desktop.  See:
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html
> 
> So if you are arguing that Polypaudio should be included in the Platform
> or Desktop modules, then I disagree with that.  It can be recommended
> for use, but it should not be required.  Put another way, applications
> in the GNOME Desktop can *not* depend on it explicitly.

Following this argument, the next step should be drop esound from
GNOME, because the same criteria should be applied.  And, may be
don't let any other sound server get into the desktop. Does it
right?

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Germán Poó Caamaño
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