Choosing a Phonon backend

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Thu Mar 27 18:24:27 GMT 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Leo Spalteholz
<leo.spalteholz at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Yikes.  Please think of the user here too.  Choosing one backend is
>  obtuse enough
>  for most users.  Choosing multiple backends depending on the source requires
>  all sorts of extra knowledge on top of that (which backend supports
>  which feature?).
>  On top of that, the UI to configure this will certainly not be nice.
>
>  Definitely would be nice to have the ability to choose backends from
>  the code, but
>  this is really not the sort of thing that should be exposed to the
>  user (aside from the
>  global choice in KDE).
>

No one is saying anything about users picking the backend.

Ian



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