On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:05 -0700, Casual Programmer wrote:
I am not sure how pulse audio came about in the first place.
I am not using it ( and not willing to ) and I think there are quite a few people thinking likewise.
It'd probably be easier to discuss this if you could let us know why you don't want to use it. I have heard, from exactly one person, that sound is stuttering, which in itself is bad and hopefully will be solved with the glitch-free branch of PulseAudio[1]. How/When we can get that in to 11.0 when Lennart (the author) merges it I don't know.
This should by no means be a default installable item.
See above.
It would help probably if there was a discussion on what packages _need_
There was a discussion on this list as well as a pattern review[2]. Nobody objected at that time.
to be installed by default. Maybe even a decision during install what the machine is going to be used for.
A bit too late for 11.0 I would think.
I vote for usability and ease of use, not accumulation of all the latest gimmickry. If I wanted that I would use Ubuntu ( K-Flavour )
10.3 is still available and does not contain all the latest bits :-) I mean, what's the point of a new distro release if you don't use the latest stuff out there? I'm guessing that you perhaps wrote that with PA in mind but since I don't know what issues you have, I can't comment.
Casual
Cheers, Magnus [1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/pulse-glitch-free.html [2] http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Pattern_Review -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org