GSmartMix has recently been accepted to Google SoC. It aims is to bring a new sound experience in Gnome.
Project pages
GSmartMix/Proposal -- Original proposal as sent to Google
GSmartMix/Discussions -- Any idea to share ?
GSmartMix/GnomeAPI -- Some personal comments to drop esd, but they will move to GStreamer/esd later
GSmartMix/DBus -- DBus API RFC
GSmartMix/Support -- What the GStreamer sink expect from an application to get a good user experience
External links
GStreamer/esd -- When esd will be dropped ?