[linux-audio-dev] Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great?

[Damon Chaplin]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 11:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:

>   Ideally we'd be rid of artsd, esd, and all the legacy from OSS/Free. 
> We'd have one sound server (JACK?) and software mixing would be enabled 
> by default. The remaining question is how to make this mandatory for at 
> least the mainstream distros. Perhaps an appeal to the LSB ? I really 
> don't know how such decisions are made.

The best place to sort this out is probably http://freedesktop.org/
That is where GNOME & KDE agree on interoperability issues.

If you can get GNOME & KDE to agree I'm pretty sure the distros would
follow. It's just a matter of coming up with a good solution.

(And remember GNOME & KDE are multi-platform - so I don't think GNOME &
KDE apps can use ALSA directly.) 


My own preference would be for a single sound server that handled
everything (e.g. by combining Jack and something like polypaudio).
But I don't know enough to comment really.

This thread from last year on a proposal to replace esd with polypaudio
in GNOME may be interesting (especially Alan Cox's comments on security
issues etc.): 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-
October/thread.html#00436

Damon