Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (139 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 19:17:47 wrote Wade Berrier:
> Hi,
>
> I know that PulseAudio is going to be the default sound server for
> Gnome.  Will it also be for KDE (or better yet, is it going to be a
> distribution wide sound server?)

I can not tell what is planned, but we were happy to get rid of any extra 
server process some years ago, because it can hurt sometimes and is not 
needed anymore, what means it is just overhead (because either alsa does 
mixing or hardware itself).

> The reason I ask is because it would be great if all packages in the
> distro were pre-configured to work against pulseaudio.  That way no
> matter what desktop environment you're using, sound will just work for
> all apps.

well, it should be no problem if some apps use direct alsa and if some other 
app gets started later what uses pulseaudio. At least as long pulseaudio 
daemon gets started automatically (I see no reason why it should run always) 
and pulseaudio itself is using alsa as well.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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