Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> Voting no. I would rather see GNOME be soundserver agnostic via
> GStreamer. This opens us up to more platforms, including ones which
> already have kickarse sound servers (like CoreAudio), and generally
> gives vendors more choices.

If I remember the discussions correctly, bundling polypaudio wouldn't 
bind GNOME to it, there would still be other choices, but polypaudio 
would be a "guaranteed to work" solution and plays nicely with KDE too. 
Leaving more choices to vendors means vendors increasingly will put 
together their own version of GNOME which isn't very related to what the 
GNOME project releases.

I must confess I'm not much of an expert at sound servers, but I've 
followed the discussions and honestly I don't understand what the 
problem is with including polypaudio. Especially since GNOME is supposed 
to have functioning sound on non-Linux platforms too and the author has 
put in every effort to make it GNOME-compatible.

> Voting no. It's just a wrapper to wget. People who are using wget, know
> how to install gwget. Users who are not using wget, use Epiphany (or
> some other browser).

Side note: gwget does include an epiphany extension.

> Abstaining. jdub summed it up pretty good. Would like to see more python
> in the desktop. I feel it could do well being proposed for Platform next
> time around.

The next release of Epiphany will include support for extensions written 
in Python.

regards,

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