Choosing a Phonon backend
Leo Spalteholz
leo.spalteholz at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 18:40:28 GMT 2008
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> 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
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Tanguy Krotoff <tkrotoff at gmail.com> wrote:
What about the user? can he be smarter than the framework to decide?
So I imagine a video app that let's the user choose which backend he wants.
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