[gcompris-devel] Thoughts about sound

[pascal.georges1 at free.fr]

En réponse à Bruno Coudoin <bcoudoin at anfora.fr>:


> What can happen is that:
> - your are not under gnome or esd sound daemon is not started
> - in gnome configuration select Multimedia -> sound -> activate the
> sound server at startup : must be checked on
> - in gnome configuration select Multimedia -> sound -> sound effect
> with
> the events : must be checked on

So, there must be a workaround to get sound working for KDE users for example.
Maybe other kind of system call allowing asynchronous sound playing ?

> On the festival idea, sounds great. It is correct that beeing able to
> i18n .wav files would be a mess to manage (text is already complex
> enough with xml and po).
> If somebody could evaluate this technology and write a small report on
> this list, it could help us decide if it is mature enough to go that
> path.
> Pascal, you want to do it ?

Yes, as soon as I get time.