Canberra

Sid sid at bsdmail.com
Tue Dec 19 02:19:56 UTC 2017


>Sid; Mon Dec 18 22:09:36 UTC 2017
> Canberra is an audio application for playing simple sounds like "DING!".
> For playing sound, I am convinced that graphical dependencies for audio/libcanberra and audio/libcanberra-gtk3 aren't needed: x11-toolkits/gtk30, x11-toolkits/gtk20, accessibility/atk.
> According to Freshports, both libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 refer to the file libcanberra-0.30.tar.xz of the same SHA256 and size.
> The difference between these two is one pulls in gtk3 as well.

> Pango is for left to right text, perhaps for displaying audio information to the user.
> Its description is its "code is platform- and toolkit-independent."
> For it to display a simple banner or visual it shouldn't require heavy graphical dependencies.
> Also, Pango should be made into an option for Canberra, so it can definitely be compiled without atk, gtk30 or gtk20.
> Pango doesn't require these three graphical dependencies, so Canberra especially shouldn't.
> USE_GNOME should also be a Makefile option in ports that are only about sound (libraries, applications, audio server components) and not graphics.

libcanberra and libcanberra-gtk3 should be replaced with audio/freedesktop-sound-theme.
Pango appears to be a different implementation of Bango, which is not in ports, but here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bango/.


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