Re: Polypaudio action plan

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Colin Walters">

> > Why have every app linking to a complete multimedia subsystem, just to
> > make ding sounds? 
> 
> Because it lets us avoid coding to a specific, nonportable API.

"us" being application developers (who use libgnome [1]), or libgnome
itself? Remember that ALSA is a specific, nonportable API, and GStreamer is
a great big hulking multimedia subsystem... which is great for what it does,
but Gnumeric, Calculator and Terminal don't need a multimedia subsystem. :)

- Jeff

[1] for now, anyway.

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