On Sunday 24 August 2008, Tim wrote: >On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 09:48 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> But what I'm still left wondering is the fundamental question: "What >> the devil is the problem people imagine exists which they imagine >> pulseaudio solves?". I can't even get my brain wrapped around the >> motivation for pulseaudio. Simply because it is possible? > >One feature: The ability to have several different things playing >sound, each with their own volume levels. e.g. Your music player >playing at the volume you want, the beeps from your IM program at the >volume you want (including silence) without disrupting the playback of >your music, etc. > >Alsa went some way towards letting more than one thing make a sound at >the same time, but you were stuck with one overall volume level. Which >not-only is it often inappropriate, but it's also a right pain that >adjusting the volume of one thing would affect others. > >When I turn my warning beeps up or down, I want them to stay at that >volume. I don't want adjusting the sound level of my music player to >muck that up. Pulseaudio goes some way towards that goal, but only if >you play with its own volume control, instead of your sound card mixer. >Really, the volumes should be set on the applications, for themselves, >and themselves alone. e.g. The volume control on XMMS ought to *only* >affect XMMS. > I certainly can't argue with that, its a right pain the way it is now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Every cloud engenders not a storm. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
