On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There's a release of GNOME 2.27.90 scheduled for this week, which means > that GNOME will enter a code freeze. This is the point where I usually > pick up packaging the next major version. > > For GNOME 2.27/28, some things will change in the distribution: > - DeviceKit-Disks (new package) > - PolicyKit 1.0 replacing 0.9 > - PulseAudio (new package) > - Esound > > Then there's PulseAudio. Though I still don't feel the need for this one > on the systems I own, a lot of users have requested this. PA has matured > a lot in the meanwhile, and PA is more than just an ordinary ESD > replacement. > > Another issue is ESD. This package is not really maintained upstream > anymore, and I don't think it makes sense to have two sound servers as > dependency for one desktop. Given the fact that Fedora disables esound > support since 2.23.4, I think it won't be a problem to remove it from > the dependency chain. Esound will stay in the repositories, but won't be > used by GNOME as sound server anymore. > > > I'm personally unhappy that PulseAudio will be my only sound system choice if i use GNOME. Yes, i realize that PulseAudio has improved massively in the past year or so, but it still breaks quite a few apps and in my experience, skips/stutters more than you want unless you're using a realtime kernel. I really hope PulseAudio will be a optdepend or a actual part of the gnome or gnome-extra groups so that if someone decides they don't want it, they don't have to use it.
