On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free.
> We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled
> by default. The remaining question is how to make this mandatory for at
> least the mainstream distros. Perhaps an appeal to the LSB ? I really
> don't know how such decisions are made.
The best place to sort this out is probably http://freedesktop.org/
That is where GNOME & KDE agree on interoperability issues.
If you can get GNOME & KDE to agree I'm pretty sure the distros would
follow. It's just a matter of coming up with a good solution.
(And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME &
KDE apps can use ALSA directly.)
My own preference would be for a single sound server that handled
everything (e.g. by combining Jack and something like polypaudio).
But I don't know enough to comment really.
This thread from last year on a proposal to replace esd with polypaudio
in GNOME may be interesting (especially Alan Cox's comments on security
issues etc.):
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-
October/thread.html#00436
Damon
Received on Mon Jun 20 16:15:07 2005
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