Re: Polypaudio action plan

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Thu, 25.11.04 12:25, Jeff Waugh (jdub perkypants org) wrote:

> 
> <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. :)

Perhaps libgnome should use libao + libsndfile instead of gstreamer for
simple "ding" sounds?

http://www.xiph.org/ao/

(Yes, there's a polypaudio plugin for libao.)

Lennart

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