Rob, On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 23:14 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2008/12/21 Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au>:
Rob OpenSuSE wrote: Most interesting.
If it was already known that pulseaudio has this problem, why in heaven's name does openSUSE 11.1 then install pulseaudio by default? Totally unbelievable......
Well going by the LWN article, the reason would be, so we can adjust the volume of individual applications, which is a nice feature, that I've been able to do on M$ Vista for example.
Now if the distro's don't push PulseAudio out to end users, do you think that Adobe (flash) and Skype are going to roll out changes to their clients, or will it be biz as usual?
Part of the point of the community distro's is to get new software and features used, as an incentive to developers, and move the "State of the Art" on.
If Fedora/Ubuntu/OS and any other big players don't move on this, will the advantages of PA become available by magic?
So really, pushing PA out into the distros will result, either :
Flash, skype, and others, trim their ALSA usage, as advocated as a potential solution in LWN
or/
The damn thing will itch so much, that the PA ALSA ABI will be extended and cover, the 80% or 90% of features that are actually used in the wild.
*shrugs*
Couldn't have said it better myself... :-) Well done. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org