> 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.
AFAIK phonon is mostly used by the desktop. Sound applications don't use it for performance and purpose reasons, so they are most likely to use alsa or pulse audio directly ... _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
