Why do we disable esd in libgnome?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 01.02.09 15:16, 平天韩 (hanpingtian at gmail.com) wrote:

> hi Great list,
> 
> I just find that the libgnome-2.24.1-7.fc10 has been disabled "esd" when it
> is built.
> This has caused the "gnome_sound_play()" doesn't work and some package such
> as
> "stardict" cannot play sound.
> 
> Why should we disable esd in libgnome? Could we enable it?

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 gnome_sound_play() has been replaced by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

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/

Lennart

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