On Wed, 30.09.09 13:53, Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 09/30/2009 01:45 PM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > So where's the problem? There are two Phonons - one in Qt, one in KDE. I don't > > like this schizophrenia. This should be solved but now we have to live with > > one or another - that's why we brought this issue to the world. > > The problem is that Nokia now seems to be developing yet another > abstraction layer. So we will have to be dealing the Phonon in KDE, > Phonon in Qt and whatever Nokia brings up next and all the possible > backends. The number of different paths that requires comprehensive > testing has exploded. We are also debating which backend to use as the > default for a long time and as usual, switching backends is exchanging > one set of bugs with another so neither is going to be ideal. > > I would prefer Gstreamer as the backend simply because users can install > a set of plugins (third party repo or Fluendo) and have their content > play in all the different desktop environments. We can fix bugs once in > Gstreamer and be done with it. However that depends on how much testing > this backend has received and what bugs have been found and how severe > they are. This is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: if you don't activate gst noone will test it. But you don't want to activate it by default without testing. We're Fedora, the distro which is always a bit ahead of the other distributions, aren't we? So I think it would make a lot of sense to switch to make our distro Gst-only asap. Eventually this move will have to happen anyway. And if it's not us who does the switch first, who will? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
