D14397: Support libcanberra for audio notification

[René J.V. Bertin]

rjvbb added a comment.


  >   That's reinventing the wheel to a point.
  
  Creating Qt after Gtk or vice-versa was also reinventing the wheel to a much larger extent - so is adding more and more OS features to Qt as has been going on for years.
  
  libcanberra comes from "the other" GUI universe. My arguments against depending on it stand, I think, including the one about not increasing and probably reducing the number of dependencies.
  
  Improving QtMultimedia with useful features (as far as that's even necessary!) may be reinventing the wheel but will have benefits for much more than just KNotifications (because, you know, *useful*).
  
  I'd love to look into using QAudioOutput (esp. if someone a bit more familiar with audio programming is willing to provide guidance), but after summer.  (Thinking beyond the issue at hand: phonon works just fine, but its backends have been bothering me for a while and a QtMultiMedia backend could be an interesting idea to investigate as an easier cross-platform option.)

REPOSITORY
  R289 KNotifications

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D14397

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