[Gajim-devel] Fallback to OSS when no soundplayer found

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Schleifer
<js-gajim at webkeks.org> wrote:
> Am 12.04.2011 um 10:40 schrieb Zhihao Yuan:
>
>> This is only on when there is no soundplayer (e.g., aplay, ossplay,
>> esdplay...) found by gajim. Whenever you have one of them, my patch
>> won't be executed.
>
> When I have no soundplayer installed, it still might happen that I have other applications installed that might want to use sound, right? So it is an issue if Gajim opens the sound device and doesn't even let me disable that.
>
> --
> Jonathan
>
>

If you did not try this version, then don't argue this.

gajim does not own OSS device during the whole session. If the device
is in use, gajim does not plays sound; if the device is not in use,
gajim only opens the device for 1 or 2 seconds.

-- 
Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.