Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 March 2008, Adrian Schröter said:
> > I'm not against PulseAudio. But before patching packages like general
> > rule we should know the KDE Team posture about it. If it still is the
> > "it's just a Gnome thing" from
> > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-11/msg00175.html the
> > only packages that should be touched are the ones that the Gnome Team
> > is already touching:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Ideas/11.0/PulseAudio
>
> It is no problem to support a Phonon Pulseaudio plugin, but from my opinion
> it would be just unneeded overhead by default for the average user. KDE
> learned from the past and does not rely on any implementation like arts,
> pulseaudio, gstreamer, nmm, .... anymore ;)
>
> If you want to convince others to use pulseaudio also for KDE, you may want
> to write a plugin ;)
>
> Btw, is pulseaudio also supporting video ? Because Phonon is also the video
> interface for KDE now.

Nobody answered my questions back then, so I just forgot about it.  My stance 
is still the same - it seems to be nice soundserver upgrade for Gnome.

My opinion on PulseAudio for KDE is the same as Adrian's but with less 
winking; unless it's wrong I don't see a need to support PA in KDE:

AFAICS the only material advantage of a sound server is to get software mixing 
on crappy hardware, but given the relative scarcity of sufficiently crappy 
hardware, I feel this is outweighed by the hassle of having an extra daemon 
and all the associated config and infrastructure hanging around.

On that basis I hope that PA changes to openSUSE will remain inside the 
gnome-session boundary, and that Gnome apps running outside a Gnome session 
will have a way to start the PA daemon on demand (as KDE apps did with 
arts*).

Will

* And I gladly bequeath them the "$DESKTOP project is bloated, $DESKTOP-$APP 
starts X daemons alongside when I run it in $WM" crowd who plagued KDE 3.

-- 
Desktop Engineer
KDE Team
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