FC3 wishlist - sound server

[Bill Nottingham]

Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:58:21PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > JACK requires rewriting apps... it uses a rather different audio
> > model than artsd/esd does by default.
> 
> >From the gnome end that to happen anyway. I can find no way using the
> esd api to pass textual descriptions of audio information so its an
> accessibility issue.

Well, yes, but AFAIK esd-based apps still use a more-normal
open()/read()/write() framework; jack is all callback based.

Bill