Why do we disable esd in libgnome?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Feb 1 15:59:46 UTC 2009


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> esd is considered obsolete. gnome_sound_play() has been replaced by
> the more generic, powerful, platform-independant and dektop-agnostic
> functionality found in libcanberra.

But existing programs use that function, and disabling libesd support (which
works with PulseAudio) means it'll try to use OSS output (which doesn't
work with PulseAudio).

        Kevin Kofler




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