On Nov 27, 2007 3:32 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer
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.
Most applications using sound still work without pulseaudio via alsa directly, pa just puts itself between the two and offers very easy control (volume, network sharing etc). So even while e.g. banshee is playing and pa dies, music keeps playing. AFAIK it is not only for GNOME, it will work no matter what DE you are running, so far we have ported only gnome specific applications so it might seem that way. Here is kde-settings-pulseaudio src rpm from fedora, KDE devs would be able to understand it more: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/26/dist/54/size/22017/name/kde-settings... Cheers -J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org