Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> > Probably it would be better if, when artsd is running, I would test for
> > availability of artsd output plugin, and hackerishly edit on-the-fly your
> > ~/.xmms/config so that default plugin would be set to artsd.
>
> May be the xmms people could add that functionality to xmms, so that it checks
> for a config flag at startup (something like CheckForSoundDaemon), and if set,
> check for running sound daemons, and setup the correct plug-in.
>From a software design point of view, this would be bad; the good solution
would be to have a list of plugin, ans xmms ask each plugin if it can run
of not (a bit like when xmms passes the files to each input plugin, mp3,
ogg, etc), each plugin would decide if it can run according to the
availability of its 'device'.
PS : please could you remove quoted text that is unneeded
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
