On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Well, if remote sound and software mixing is not important to you,
Or, more likely, if you prefer another solution... > you can turn it off. > But it's not going to happen upstream, until we have another > cross-platform solution. esound is simple, and it works, which is why no one > has managed to replace it yet. My question comes down to: are the freedesktop guys working on some kind of shared sound architecture? I'd heard rumblings this was the case. > > Tho I imagine the choice could be removed in order to make things be > > simpler in Gnome philosophy. > > No, that doesn't make a lot of sense, nor reflects a "GNOME philosophy". Gnome is about not overwhelming users with choice. Choice implicitly overwhelmes people, and if they wanted to be overwhelmed, they'd use KDE. According to most of the Gnome blogs / manifestos post 2.6 anyway. Hence changing the default behavior of applications without asking / telling users and providing no method to change it back without hacking. There's nothing wrong with this belief, though I don't share it. It's just that people should understand this, so they don't ask things of Gnome which are outside this spec. Off topic, but hey, you started it :^P Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
