On Friday 07 August 2009 17:47:18 Lubos Lunak wrote:
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).
I am not sure if GNOME has really a hard requirement on it. Most of the GNOME applications will fallback to the default ESD sound daemon, which is still present in 11.2. On my own system I just tried to de-install as much as possible from PulseAudio and the only dependency that I encountered was kmix. I am using a couple of GNOME applications and they procedure nicely sounds through ESD or even directly ALSA. I took the decision to deinstall it as that I was facing the problem that with PA active, kmix starts with the sound muted. Removing PA solved that issue completely :) Regards Raymond