tor, 21.04.2005 kl. 19.18 skrev Pete Zaitcev: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:10:23 +1200, David Mohring <heretic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:39 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > > > Looks like infrastructure for removing esd is in place. > > > The following prevent it: > > > > The esound demon ESD, clunky as it, is still currently the best way to > > serve sound to remote X11/LTSP terminals. [...] > > This should not prevent us from removing dependencies on ESD, so that > we do not have to have it installed unconditionally. The vast majority of > users do not need it. Currently, gnome-libs and libgnomeui depend on esound. > David wants to remove it completely, which may be extreme. > > -- Pete What about making some (new?) protocol for sound-over-network - something that *just is there* when you connect over XDMCP? Maybe something hooked into ALSA just to make it more complicated - like a "viritual soundcard device"?