On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 06:10:51PM +0300, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> This in turn causes phonon to not work and fail when KDE or KDE apps
>> try to play sound through it. One unfortunate side effect of this is
>> bug FS#4423  where shutdown and restart fail in KDE because of this.
>>
>> A default backend must be present for phonon to work and I've chosen
>> the xine one as it was the first one on Unix and is more stable. Added
>> it asa rodepends to avoid a circular dependency issue.
>>
>> Attached is the git patch.
>>
>> P.S.  Michel I apologize for cc-ing you but I thought it might be of
>> interest as we've talked about this before.
>
> Actually you did not CC him. :)
>

I did not ? I did want to though ? He's in my gmail's cc:
[email protected] ... wonder how that went wrong :D

> I agree with the patch in general, thanks for doing it. Two concerns:
>
> - Michel, can you please ACK this patch? IIRC last time you mentioned
>  you're rather fix KDE's code to handle missing phonon backends
>  gracefully. That sounds fine to me as well, of you have a patch (since
>  Marius *has* a patch.)
>
> - Before applying it, phonon-backend-xine should be moved to main to
>  prevent testsuite breakage.
>

 Well even if KDE cand be made to work without a phonon backend the
question is why would we want it to do so. I can imagine a user
installing amarok for instance which I believe uses phonon too only to
find out it dosn't really play any music. But anyway I'm open to
suggestions as long as it works properly.

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