[svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd, integrated with Gnome

[Erik Steffl]

  gnome is particularly annoyng in this: when I installed alsa withough
oss support configured ALL gnome apps suddenly exited after few seconds
- after I tried to run them from command line I saw that they were
trying to open audio files (via esd), even though I have never heard any
sound from those apps (pan, some games etc.). I fixed the problem (and
you can run them with --disable-sound) but it's windowish anyway. major
turnoff as far as gnome is concerned.

  there are VERY few apps that should fail to run without sound, even
music programs like jazz (sequencer) run without sound (you can edit the
file etc)

	erik


Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 dfox at belvdere.vip.best.com wrote:
> 
> > > What bothered me was having Glade refuse to run because it couldn't open
> > > /dev/dsp. My GUI builder should not be ALLOWED to have access to my audio
> >
> > I don't see the point of that either. Some stuff I launch within gnome
> > do print a warning about /dev/dsp to the console, but continue to
> > run. I normally run with /dev/dsp accessible, and it's OK if an
> > app wants to use it and can't because it's in use (I might be using
> > xmms as well). But it should never fail to run simply because /dev/dsp
> > is not accessible.
> 
> The only music I want out of my machine is stuff I explicitly allow.
> I don't even want apps other than games *attempting* to use /dev/dsp
> unless they're music apps. This goes especially for nutscrape.
> 
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