Re: Polypaudio action plan

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller">

> > "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. :)
> 
> On the topic of being 'a great big hulking' I would like to point out that
> GStreamer is the backend used for multimedia in GPE handheld environment
> so we can't be that horrible :) 

And that's entirely appropriate... for multimedia applications that require
this kind of infrastructure, whether they're on teeny-tiny embedded devices
or on a desktop computer.

- Jeff

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