Re: what we need to make apps use gtk instead of libgnome/ui

[Kristof Vansant <de_lupus pandora be>]

I think esd should be optional. Using gstreamer makes this possible.
But I agree that gstreamer should have a simple api that could replace
the esd code. Any gstreamer developers here that can comment on this?

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 20:33 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-23-02 at 21:23 +1030, Alex Murray wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:37 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
>
>> > esd -> gstreamer
>> 
>> Has gstreamer been confirmed as the plan for sound in Gnome in the
>> future??
>
>It has in the sense of for a very long time its been the heir-in-waiting
>for all things multimedia, and there is no credible challenger (xine is
>patent dangerous, not flexible enough, etc). However I am lead to
>believe that ESD is not dead yet because there is no simple
>gst_play_sound ("/from/file") type API that is currently in use in a
>couple places.
>
>Polyp audio was considered to replace ESD, but I think for the sake of
>simplifying things it was decided to, in the future, use pure GST over
>another sound server.
>
>ps. Did you derive your alias from pasting the first names of your
>favourite GNOME hackers together? (bad joke :)
>
>Cheers,
>Ryan
>
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