Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 17:27 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
>> On Friday 23 November 2007, Rodrigo Moya said:
>>> So, first, I would like people to test the packages we've built, and
>>> second, what needs to be done to put this into the distro for 11.0? Are
>>> KDE people aware and happy of the change? 
>> I'm aware of it affecting gnome, but at the moment I see it as GNOME 
>> replacing 
>> esd.  Does it have a wider impact on the distro that I'm not aware of?  
>>
>> I'm not aware of anyone writing a PA backend for Phonon yet.
>>
> PulseAudio replaces esd, true, but it offers many new features, not
> present in arts AFAIK, that, I think, could benefit KDE also. If there
> are no plans in upstream KDE, I guess we'd keep it as a GNOME thing
> only, although we are going to patch some non-GNOME apps, like jack, so
> I guess it would be good to be using the same sound server everywhere.

I'm still not quite sure what sound layer an application should support
in future.
I feel that applications which are no _real_ KDE or Gnome applications
shouldn't use ESD/ARTS/Pulseaudio anyway. Is that true? For example I
have no desktop environment running usually and don't plan to run
pulseaudio/arts/whatever just for one or two applications using it.

Wolfgang
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