Re: RFC: GSound, a GObject library for playing system sounds

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 14 November 2014 09:47, Tristan Brindle <tcbrindle gmail com> wrote:

> A little while ago I wrote a small library called GSound (remarkably, a name which doesn’t seem to have 
> been used before, at least on my Fedora installation). It wraps the libcanberra API and “GObject-ifies” it 
> so it can be properly used in introspected languages. I’ve recently dug it back up and dusted it off ready 
> for public release. The code is available at
>
> https://github.com/tcbrindle/gsound
>
> and the generated documentation can be found at
>
> https://tcbrindle.github.io/gsound-docs
>
> (libcanberra itself isn’t introspectable, which I believe has caused problems for various projects in the 
> past, and is the reason GSound exists.)

sounds great!

> I also have a couple of quick questions:
>
> * What is the status of the libcanberra GTK module? I’ve held off wrapping any of the canberra-gtk stuff as 
> I seem to recall that it was being dropped, but perhaps that has changed?

I was talking to Matthias Clasen about this on the #gtk+ IRC channel
not so long ago; I'd be happy if the libcanberra-gtk module was
actually subsumed into GTK+ proper, and we just added a direct
(optional) dependency on libcanberra. it would simplify the build, the
dependency list, and the QA process of the library.

> * Is there a procedure for submitting libraries for inclusion into the Gnome project proper? I’d be very 
> keen on GSound becoming an “official” part of the platform if people find it useful, and I’m happy to 
> follow the Gnome release cycles and so forth, but as an “outsider” (currently) I’m not sure what I’d need 
> to do for that to happen.

there is no real procedure: if applications in the jhbuild moduleset
start depending on GSound, and you commit to maintaining the library
in a way that is compatible with the GNOME release schedule, then
that's all that you need to do. :-)

if you want to use the GNOME infrastructure to host your code, track
bugs and enhancements, and open a mailing list, you can start the
process to get an account:
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/AccountsTeam/NewAccounts

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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