Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Wade Berrier <wberrier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 18:01 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:17 -0600, Wade Berrier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that PulseAudio is going to be the default sound server for
> > Gnome.  Will it also be for KDE (or better yet, is it going to be a
> > distribution wide sound server?)
> >
> > The reason I ask is because it would be great if all packages in the
> > distro were pre-configured to work against pulseaudio.  That way no
> > matter what desktop environment you're using, sound will just work for
> > all apps.
>
> > Lennart posted a nice guide of how to package apps so they will work
> > with pulseaudio:
> >
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-August/msg01196.html
> I think we can follow the indications there and, if pulseaudio is
> running, do the pasuspender thing, if not, just run as normal. That way,
> those apps should work on GNOME, using pulseaudio, and outside GNOME, if
> I understood correctly

That's a great idea!