Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (128 mails)

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:42 +0200, Christian Jäger wrote:
> I think the problem is that this innovation costs all (users who feel
> performance to be lower or are simply irritated by a new applet) and
> benefits few (who really use the possibilities PulseAudio provides).
>
> The first part of the problem is similar to Compiz and its 'bling'; it
> cost a lot of performance and made a lot of problems in the beginning.
>
> But what alleviated the 'marketing-problem' with Compiz was that also
> almost everybody CRAVED for that bling (wobbly windows, spinning
> cube...) once he/she had seen it. For PulseAudio, we don't have
> something like this... The functionality it provides for audio might be
> similar to what Compiz did for video, but almost no-one will want to use
> it in practice. That _is_ a problem when once tries to gather acceptance
> among openSUSE's userbase.
right, but I see PA integration in 11.0 as a 1st step to achieve
something like that. In 11.1, .2, 12.x.. I think we would be able to
make better things to use the extra features in PA.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@xxxxxxxxxx>

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