Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis-followup.html
My Audio API guide got quite a few responses.
The Good
Takashi
likes it. And so
does David. Which is great because both are key people in the Linux
multimedia community.
It made it to LWN. I sincerely
and humbly hope this is not going to stay the only news site picking this up.
😉
The safe ALSA part of the recommendations will most likely be added to the ALSA documentation soon. The GNOME-relevent part I will be adding to the GNOME platform overview.
The Bad
Aaron
basically likes it, although he appears disappointed that KDE’s and Qt’s
Phonon wasn’t mentioned more positively. Aaron is very fair in his criticism.
Nonetheless I don’t think it is valid. My guide is not a list of alternatives.
It’s a list of recommendations. My recommendations. I do believe that my
recommendations very much match the mainstream of the opinions of the key
people in Linux multimedia and desktop audio. Of course I don’t nearly know
everyone of the key hackers in Linux multimedia. But I do know most of those
who are actively interested in collaboration, whose projects have a lot
mindshare and who attend the conferences that matter for Linux desktop audio.
Also see Christian’s comments on Aaron’s post.
The Ugly
It wasn’t my intention to start another GNOME-vs.-KDE flamefest.
Unfortunately a lot of people took this as great opportunity to troll at the
various blog comment forums. I guess it is inevitable that some of those whose
favourite software is not listed on a recommendation guide like this start to
clamour about that. It’s a pity not everyone who thinks I am treating KDE
unfairly criticises that as fairly and reasonable as Aaron. Anyway, I humbly take this as a sign that
people do consider this guide to be relevant and much needed. 😉