Re: GNOME CVS: libgnome martin

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> the API is probably the worst thing about it, it doesn't give you
> the very first thing that even /dev/dsp provides, such as output
> queue status information. it's really not decently usable besides
> "load server sided sample by file name, 'play' and leak it".
> with 'play' being all the glory that esd provides such as reliable
> dropouts.

The esd API is absolutely wonderful for what we need. Its so utterly simple
that when we pick a post 2.0 decent gnome sound API it will be trivial to
emulate. Until then there is no point adding another random half broken API
to the system that will go away again

Alan