Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (192 mails)

[Herbert Graeber <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag 08 August 2009 12:05:30 schrieb Karsten König:
> Am Freitag, 7. August 2009 17:47:18 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> >  Hello,
> >
> >  to accompany Martin's mail, there is one more sound-related issue for
> > 11.2, that was shortly discussed after the yesterday's meeting had been
> > already over.
> >
> >  There is fate feature #305888 (Disable Pulse Audio by default). KDE has
> > no hard dependency on Pulse Audio (unlike, as far as I understood,
> > GNOME), so we can handle this issue ourselves. Even if we decide to
> > disable it by default for KDE, there would be of course still the option
> > to enable it, for those who would like that (it's in the YAST sound
> > module somewhere).
> >
> >  So, just like with GStreamer/Xine, we'd be intestered in preferences and
> > technical reasons for them.
> >
> >  I added Pulse Audio as a topic for the next IRC meeting, but assuming
> > there is a clear consensus, we could try this already for Milestone6 to
> > get testing.
>
> Thinking abit about it PA seems to be the way forward everybody is taking,
> if dumping it for now (I am fine with that) we should think it over for
> every upcomming release, especially if there will be a proper kmix for it.

For sure, a properly working PA would be a win. But in the state it has in 
openSUSE 11.1 it is as bad as arts was in KDE some time ago.

Phonon is designed for plugable audio plugins. For KDE it would best if PA is 
optional, that means it can work without PA, but PA could be used if the user 
needs it.

Herbert
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