What should we use instead of libcanberra

[garyvdm (Gary van der Merwe)]

Hi All.

I’m looking at porting Aisleriot to gtk4. Aisleriot currently uses libcanberra-gtk3, which I understand is deprecated. Is there a preferred replacement for doing event sounds for gnome apps?

[ebassi (Emmanuele Bassi)]

@garyvdm

Aisleriot currently uses libcanberra-gtk3, which I understand is deprecated.

libcanberra is unmaintained, and has been unmaintained for about 10 years; libcanberra-gtk3 is just a bunch of glue code to associate sound effects (coming from a “sound theme”) with GTK events. None of this stuff is even remotely relevant to modern GNOME.

@garyvdm

Is there a preferred replacement for doing event sounds for gnome apps?

You can use GtkMediaFile to load the asset, and then use the GtkMediaStream API to control the playback.

You should ship the sound assets with your application.

If you need more control, you can use GStreamer directly, with the GstPlay API.

[garyvdm (Gary van der Merwe)]

Ok thanks.

You should ship the sound assets with your application.

I see that is already the case with Aisleriot, so that makes the change easier.