<quote who="Mike MacCana"> > > Well, if remote sound and software mixing is not important to you, > > Or, more likely, if you prefer another solution...
If you prefer another solution, you'd have to replace GNOME's use of esound with something else that achieves the same ends. That's not a simple change, and because there's very little out there that's as simple as esound, no one has done it. > 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. MAS, which has basically gone no where for the last few years, is listed on freedesktop.org, but that doesn't mean it's a standard or intended to become one. freedesktop.org standardises common usage more than anything else. > > > 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. But you're also miscommunicating / misunderstanding it. It's not about removing choice, it's about making things "Just Work". Removing esound configuration at this time would not make sense. It'll be great when sound does "Just Work", but that's not the case right now. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "Are you XFire's crazy girlfriend? And if so, shine on you crazy diamond!" - Paul Cameron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
