D14397: Port audio notification to libcanberra

[René J.V. Bertin]

rjvbb added a comment.


  >   According to its website  "It comes with several backends (ALSA, PulseAudio, OSS, GStreamer, null)"
  
  Which are all either Linux-specific or *nix-desktop oriented with ties to X11 and probably even GTk.
  
  Justifying a change with loss of weight while at the same time introducing a dependency on an entire rival GUI middleware seems a bit awkward to me ;)
  
  I didn't think of this before, but do you actually need a 3rd party library for playing alert sounds? Wouldn't QtMultimedia do the trick? I just checked: it's perfectly native on Mac, which means it almost has to be on MSWin too. It also provides control over the device to use (nice to be able to send notifications to another device than the one for audio playback; something that still doesn't work with Phonon on Mac).
  I'd start looking into this myself if we weren't in the middle of an endless heatwave :-/

REPOSITORY
  R289 KNotifications

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D14397

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