Wednesday 02 January 2008, Varun Acharya wrote: | Hi, | I'd like to bring the following packages into extra in the near | future and maintain them.. Please let me know if you have any | objections | | - smplayer / smplayer-themes - qt4 based frontend for mplayer | <will move to testing first, of course) | - transmission - nice simple bittorrent client | - miro - very actively developed web tv viewer | - gspcav1 - webcam kernel module for many webcams out there. | - dvdbackup - only tool which seems to be able to copy exact | uncompressed dvd structure without hassles | - showimg - very nice qt based image viewer, great for fullscreen | slideshows with mouse wheel control all your listened pkgs make a good picture. besides miro that i don't know, i support your decision. go for it. | FYI, all these packages are in community now, and have received | quite a good number of votes. | | A question about 'pulseaudio' ... the trend seems to be some major | distributions (Fedora and Ubuntu) are adopting pulseaudio as | default sound server, any idea why? Its in community right now | too. Is anyone using this as their sound server right now? Can you | share your experiences with it ? If it is clearly superior to the | alternatives, then it should be in extra too. If its still in its | infancy, then let it remain in community. I'll test it too and get | back isn't pulse a replacement for esd? i think it should be in extra, yes. there is a request for mpd to be compiled with pulseaudio enabled: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8472 if you move it, let me know so that i can make mpd support it. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><