Hi, it was discussed several times to port GNOME to use GStreamer instead of ESD. Unfortunately no one actually did it. Now I tried to implement some of the ideas mentioned in [1] and ended up with a DBus-based daemon that loads the samples into memory and the clients can play them by using their "keys" (e.g. gnome-2/login). The DBus approach also moves the dependency of gstreamer out of the applications, only the daemon has to be linked to it. I myself didn't like the idea of integrating it with notify-daemon because the gnome_sound API was also used to play sounds in games, therefore this "new" API will most likely do the same, and I don't know if this really is the purpose of libnotify. I've opened a bug report in GNOME bugzilla at [2] and attached my implementation [3] including a few patches to some GNOME modules that used the gnome_sound API. gnome-settings-daemon HEAD doesn't seem to work, but you can apply the patches to the release versions. Everything is backwards-compatible because I introduced a new API rather than changing gnome_sound. Please try it and tell me what you think about this idea.
Kind regards, Philipp Kerling [1] http://live.gnome.org/GStreamer/esd [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445078 [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=89543 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list