At Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:33:18 +0100, Damon Chaplin wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > > Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free. > > We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled > > by default. The remaining question is how to make this mandatory for at > > least the mainstream distros. Perhaps an appeal to the LSB ? I really > > don't know how such decisions are made. > > The best place to sort this out is probably http://freedesktop.org/ > That is where GNOME & KDE agree on interoperability issues. > > If you can get GNOME & KDE to agree I'm pretty sure the distros would > follow. It's just a matter of coming up with a good solution. > > (And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME & > KDE apps can use ALSA directly.)
They don't have to use ALSA directly, but they can use a common library which uses ALSA directly like polypaudio. Takashi
