Click Feedback?

[Federico Lorenzi]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
<mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> we have been shipping pulseaudio (which is quite a CPU hog on embedded
> systems) on our rootfs for quite a while now. The main reason not to use alsa
> directly was because of mixing, since alsa dmix absolutely does not cut it.
>
> However just recently I ponder whether I should remove pulseaudio for the time
> being. I have been mainly using it to create a click sound (touch feedback),
> since ring tone et. al playback goes over gstreamer anyways.
>
> So... how important is that click sound to you? Would you miss it? Personally,
> I love it, since the device kind of vibrates (because it's low enough) hence
> I immediately know that the touch has been recognized, even if the UI takes a
> bit. However, I know lot of other people hate it.
>
> If we were to get rid of it, we could ditch pulseaudio and go directly to
> alsa. This means no longer being able to mix sounds, but rather stick them
> into a queue and play them sequentially.
>
> Opinions?

Write a light weight sound muxing daemon? :) Wouldn't it be possible
to get the device to actually vibrate when you touch something, since
it does have a vibrator and all?

Cheers,
Federico