On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 01:12 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
tor, 04 01 2007 kl. 14:50 -0500, skrev Bill Nottingham:
And, what would a release be without features. We've identified 28 features that we'd like to include in the release, available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/Features:
There was for a long time interest in replacing the much hated esd with another solution. Pulseaudio was suggested and is already in Extras. To be a drop in replacement I think all we need is a package for the gstreamer sink.
Would this be feasble for Fedora 7?
I had some issues with pulseaudio playing with other apps that I regrettably didn't file (reinstalled with FC6 soon after and forgot about it.) I think esd releases the sound device after a period of inactivity which allows other applications to use it whereas pulseaudio doesn't. Not sure though as I tried running padsp <PROGRAM> and some other things with no change.
Regardless, we should evaluate how well pulseaudio plays with other programs early in the cycle so we have a chance to find and fix any little compatibility issues that crop up.
-Toshio