Re: Replacing esd with gstreamer

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Ian Burrell wrote:
> I was looking at http://live.gnome.org/GStreamer/esd. I did some
> investigation and I think I see how this can be accomplished.  My
> impression is that the principal goal is migrating the simple sound
> playing API in libgnome to use gstreamer to play sound files and
> samples. I am volunteering to make this happen.
> 
> There are a few places in gnome CVS which are using esound interface
> directly.  The gnome-session, gnome-settings-daemon, and libgnomeui
> are involved with managing the daemon and gconf key for it.  I am
> guessing that if esd was not needed, then this could be removed.  It
> might need to be kept for compatibility.
> 
for gnome-session and g-s-d the code just uses gnome_sound_play, and it
spawns (now only in gnome-session) esd by hand. So just removing that
spawning code and change gnome_sound_play to use GStreamer should be
enough.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>