Why do we disable esd in libgnome?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 07:18 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
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> What about the possibility of rewriting gnome_sound* to use libsydney?
> I know it's not the most exciting work available, but that would some
> to be the correct long term fix. It's not like the libgnome API can go
> away prior to GNOME-3.0.

It's not possible to provide an ABI or API compatible replacement,
because gnome_sound_* exports some esound specific APIs. For example,
gnome_sound_connection_get () and gnome_sound_sample_load().

So if you're going to change the semantics, the apps will need to be
fixed. And if the applications need to be fixed, I don't see the
difference between rewriting the few lines of code to use libcanberra
and adapting it for a libgnome API with different semantics.