[X2Go-Dev] Removal of EsounD support

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Mihai,

On Mi 13 Jun 2012 19:29:39 CEST "John A. Sullivan III" wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:27 +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm thinking about removing ESD support from x2goclient altogether.
>>
>> During my recent deep changes to the PulseAudio integration for  
>> X2goclient on
>> both Windows and Mac OS X, I came across the ESD sound support. On  
>> Windows, ESD
>> was supported through the PulseAudio wrapper, while OS X was  
>> totally broken anyway.
>>
>> Testing ESD support proves to be difficult, and I'm thinking about  
>> removing it
>> completely.
>>
>> Most Linux distributions have already removed esd (and tools) from  
>> their repo,
>> or rather replaced it by the PulseAudio esd compat layer. That's  
>> especially true
>> for Ubuntu, but also Debian Testing and Unstable (Debian Stable  
>> still has esd
>> for x86 and amd64 arches, but this will be dropped in favor of  
>> PulseAudio in the
>> upcoming release.)
>>
>> That said, I'd like to know whether users are still using esd or  
>> not. I wouldn't
>> feel comfortable removing a feature still in use. Please report, if  
>> you find the
>> time.
> <snip>
> Removing it is fine by me - John

Let us do that in two steps.

Now: add an alert Window if someone chooses ESD in the session profile.
in 6-12 months: remove the feature.

Mike

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