Choosing a Phonon backend

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 28 March 2008, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> >  that said, having to configure this in every app would be Evil(tm) and
> > having apps override my preferences would be Evil^2. that's just asking
> > for really bad situations where apps choose incompatible mechanisms,
> > which is one of the problems phonon is actually *solving* ;)
>
> I'm not sure that UI guidelines are best enforced by API edicts
> though. Especially for non-K Desktop Environment platforms.
>
> Plus it's not clear to me why the user should care what backend is
> being used. I mean if apps can choose "incompatible mechanisms", which
> stops the user from doing so? I don't even know what that would be.

Backend selection for the user should be the exception. One such exceptional 
case I can think of is that there is a backend that comes with some extra 
feature the user needs/wants and perhaps some problems the user doesn't care 
about. Take a NMM backend as example: it would provide some network 
transparency features you'd not get with any other backend. As trade-off 
you'd get less feature support (features the user doesn't need anyway).

I'm aiming for one day being able to hide the backend stuff completely and let 
it be an implementation detail.

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