Re: no need to spawn esd

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:43 -0800, David Schleef wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:32:41PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 08:11 -0800, David Schleef wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:26:09PM +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > It seems there really is no need to run esd from gnome-session and
> > > > gnome-settings-daemon, since libesound will spawn it when needed.
> > > > 
> > > > So, here are two patches for g-session and g-s-d that just don't spawn
> > > > it at all. It seems to work ok for me, but please could people test it
> > > > and make sure it doesn't break anything before I submit them?
> > > 
> > > Spawning esd from libesd is the root of all kinds of evil.  I'd
> > > remove the feature if I didn't expect that eventually someone would
> > > complain loudly and it would erupt into a flamewar.  Instead, I've
> > > been fixing apps that use esound to not request that a daemon is
> > > started.
> > > 
> > and how do you do that? I guess we want that also for gnome-session and
> > g-s-d.
> 
> Put ESD_NO_SPAWN=1 into the environment (i.e., by using g_setenv())
> before calling esd_open_sound().  Yes, I realize this is gross.  But
> adding API to esound at this point is silly.
> 
can't we just do that in libgnome and thus remove the need to spawn esd
for all apps at once?
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>