Choosing a Phonon backend

Fabio Locati fabiolocati at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 18:59:35 GMT 2008


On Friday 28 March 2008 11:56:41 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 28 March 2008, Fabio Locati wrote:
> > As I said some time ago, imho phonon have to be able to use in the same
> > time more than one backend.
>
> just realize that not all backends will be simultaneously usable. that's
> where this whole thing really starts to fall apart.
>
> > When a program ask to phonon a function that is not developped in
> > the 'default backend'
>
> i think this is where things go awry. the program should not care about
> this. phonon should abstract away these issues and decisions, and really
> the application has no way to know which backends will be available or
> which features they provide or don't.
>
> were i the phonon designers (i'm not =), i'd say firmly but simply: "if you
> are considering what happens behind the scenes of Phonon in your
> application, then either Phonon needs to be improved or your application is
> Doing It Wrong."
I was speaking in a phonon pov.
> this would result in application developers providing the feedback (and
> maybe even the patches ;) for where phonon needs to expand/extend while
> preventing poor choices being made in the applications themselves.
>
> i completely understand the xine backend exposure issue, but really that's
> a (temporary) phonon API failing. that should be fixed in phonon (i
> understand that it is, even), and app developers should not take that as
> the modus operandi of how to deal with frameworks like phonon.
>
> (you can replace "phonon" in the above with pretty much any of our kde4
> frameworks, btw)


-- 
Fabio Alessandro Locati
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