On Tue, 15.07.08 01:13, Lennart Poettering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Heya! > > At GUADEC 2008 in Istanbul we had a little improvised Desktop Sound BoF. Here > are my notes: > > Present: > > - Marc Andre Lureau > - Jens Granseuer > - Bastien Nocera > - Vincent Untz > - Lennart Poettering > - William Jon McCan > (Did I forget anyone?) > > Action plan: > > Bastien: > 1. write a new gnome-volume-control, directly linking against > libpulse, that does all what pavucontrol does, however > doesn't suck, isn't written in C++ and looks as pretty as > the current g-v-c. (a compact version should be > embeddable into the panel, a full version should run > standalone. Also see Topaz mockups) > 2. While doing that he will send Lennart his API criticisms, > who then needs to fix them. > 3. Moves the Fedora Feature page to l.g.o > > Vincent: > 1. Check with people (i.e. Solaris, ...) if it is OK to > link against libpulse directly from some very specific > desktop applications (such as g-v-c) instead of always > going through some kind of abstraction layer (i.e. > GStreamer, libcanberra, ...). > 2. Ask KDE folks about how to proceed with PA and lib > canberra > > Jens: > 1. Write new sound theme config dialog page > > Lennart: > 1. Release pa 0.9.11, so that Bastien can actually make use > of the property support of PA (i.e. icons for audio apps > in volcontrol) > 2. Change PA to not save/restore volumes per app, but per > role of apps (i.e. "voip" vs. "music" vs. "movie"...). > 3. Allow passing of role to gst-pulse. > 4. Propose libcanberra for 2.24
Before anyone asks: I'll propose it as external dependency to the release team. I am not proposing it to become a component of GNOME or something like that. > Marc-Andre: > 1. Post his flat volumes patch for PA. > > Also, we hoped that we can convince Rodrigo to write the other sound > config dialog page, which would allow configuration of the default > devices for special roles. Before this can be started, Lennart needs > to do his items on the list first, however. > > This stuff is intended for 2.26 (though the volcontrol should end up > in F10 already). I'll propose libcanberra for 2.24 already, however, > so that people can start making use of sound events in GNOME in more > places. > > The relevant bug numbers for the patches I already posted > are: 541420, 539786, 539840, 539790, 368304. > > Questions? Anything I forgot? > > Lennart > Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
