On Fri, 22.08.08 09:23, Colin Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think the long term approach for libcanberra on Solaris should be the > same as on other platforms and that is to get Pulseaudio running and use > that as the backend. PA backend will support many more features than a > pure audio hardware backend such as positional sounds (e.g. clicking > near the left of the screen will produce a sound that comes more out the > left speakers etc.) and for sample caches for a more responsive setup.
Hehe. On request of Glynn Foster I sent mail to the osol mailing list a while back, regarding PA and Solaris. It didn't exactly get a positive response. The Solaris people think I am retarded or something and PA is the totally obsoleted by OSS4 and they wondered why RH might pay me for this. Good for them! Explicitly for not having to deal with those Solaris fanboys too much, I am pushing this kind of "soft" dependency of GNOME on PA: i.e. via abstraction layers like libcanberra and Gst where applicable, and directly only where necessary (like in the new volume control). This way I hope to minimize the flak from solaristas and from other niche operating system fans I get. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ libcanberra-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/libcanberra-discuss
