[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GNOME 2.28 - changes ahead

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That's why i'm using OSS for that kind of matters.

2009/8/11 Jeff Horelick <jdhore1 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> 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.
>