Choosing a Phonon backend

[Leo Spalteholz]

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.