New sound theme proposal for the 6.04 release

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Ivica!

Ivica Ico Bukvic [2005-10-18 15:39 -0400]:
> >   - The ESD framework we currently use for sound seems to have issues
> > with syncronization (as does the KDE one). Is there anything we can do
> > to improve that? Make it so clicking results in a sound, not a pause and
> > then a belated click sound?
> 
> My suggestion (FWIW) would be dropping esd in favor of ALSA's dmix plugin
> (although I am not sure whether Gnome can talk directly to ALSA layer
> without having an interim sound server/sink mechanism).

That is our actual preference as well. In fact we already did switch
to the gstreamer ALSA sink for a little while in Breezy, but we had to
switch the default back since dmix broke for too many people/sound
cards.

Completely dropping the concept of a mixer daemon would rock, but ALSA
isn't quite there yet. As I mentioned in another mail, I thought about
switching to ALSA again for Dapper and try to work with upstream to
get it working for the majority of cards. Are you interested in
contributing to this? 

Thanks for your great mail!

Martin

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