On Wednesday 18 November 2009 12:10:20 Martin Sandsmark wrote: > Hi! > > Colin Guthrie has been working on better integration of PulseAudio in > Phonon, but AFAIK it is now too late for getting it into 4.4, without > getting and exemption from the freeze. > > But IMHO (and Eike Hein, who reminded me about this issue :-), distros will > most probably just go ahead and patch in coling's work anyways, if it isn't > available in KDE itself. > > The KDE-module in question is kdebase-runtime (and also Phonon itself, but > that's another story). > > Another tiny snag is that it depends on an unreleased version of PulseAudio > (because whoever packaged up the last PA release forgot to include coling's > work), but I assume spring-release distros will have an up-to-date version, > so if we just check for the right PA version while building, we should be > OK. > > Mandriva's latest release already includes coling's work, so it has already > received a fair amount of testing. > > So before you all start going around in circles screaming "pulseaudio > prrrrfffft", if PA isn't available at build-time, all the PA-specific stuff > becomes nops (and possibly completely optimized away? I don't have enough > compiler-fu). And if Phonon is built with PA integration, but the PA daemon > isn't available for some reason (it crashed, or isn't installed, for > example), it degrades gracefully. > > I think this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so > help me God, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. :-) > > Or ask. Or grant an exemption, if you find the kindness in your hearts to > do so. > Do what ever needs to be done on the KDE side as you see fit. Good working audio is critical. But be as gentle as you can.
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