> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Michel Hermier <[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 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.) >> >> This is not the complicated part, this is the easy fix, and I don't like >> it. >> I really need to take so time to investigate this issue... before I take >> a >> real decisions. >> >>> - Before applying it, phonon-backend-xine should be moved to main to >>> prevent testsuite breakage. >> >> > > So what do you have against this fix ? And what other plan do you > have to fix the fact that phonon does indeed need a backend and it > simply won't work without one? That's the way it was designed. Even > if we do manage to get everything to work properly it won't play any > sound without a backend. > > Normally I'd have nothing against taking time to analyze the > situation and find a fix but the fact is that FS#4423 has been open > for almost 4 months now , with no fix , nothing. > > Can't we just fix it this way for now ? There's no reason a better > fix can't be added at a later date. Also if there's something > seriously wrong with this fix we'll have time to spot the problems > before the stable release.
I attached a patched version of phonon to the bug, please test with and without phonon backend (I dead a preliminary test and it seems to works for me). After that is fixed I'll think about the possibility to add a default backend in some way. _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
