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Are There Replacements for EsounD?

Posted by Cliff on from the finding-more-alternatives dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "On the development roadmap for GNOME 1.4 and 2.0, EsounD is listed as becoming an optional package. Are there any functional replacements for ESD on the horizon? Is an overhaul to the ESD code base underway? Are there plans to make a common sound daemon interface between KDE and GNOME?"

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  1. Re:Do we really want to get away from a standard? by 1010011010 · · Score: 3

    I imagine a replacement would be backwards-compatible, but include new features/perform better/etc.

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  2. Do we really want to get away from a standard? by bonzoesc · · Score: 4
    Here's a really philosophical question: Do we want to leave this standard? Most Gnome (and through that, Linux) apps know how to use EsounD to output their digital stream to the soundcard, and through that, the user. If it gets replaced, and ceases to exist, what will all the sound-enabled programs do? Especially the ones for which development has ceased? Would the replacement be backward compatible? Would there be third-party patches? Or would some of us be doomed to play our old games in silence?

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