On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:53 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > * Volume Control gives a cryptic error about a connection being lost > > Is it really that cryptic? It says exactly what happened: the > connection to the sound server is lost. It is completely irrelevant that this is exactly what happens. In fact, you could say that "a number of bytes don't reach a process via file descriptor 7" and it would be exactly what happens, all at the same time being a cryptic and bad error message. Do you really think a non technical user knows what a "server" is, especially in this context? If you are tempted to reply yes, don't bother, it Just Plain Wrong (TM). > > * Unless you know (how?!?) that you need a 'pulseaudio -D', you > > have to reboot the machine to get working sound > > I guess that's something one could say about 99% of all bugs. Not by a long shot. If an app crashes, _anybody_ knows to restart it. On this other hand, sound is a system feature that must work. The fact that it doesn't without frequent reboots reflects a design problem -- sound must restart automagically, not require the user to reboot every hour or so to recover this essential desktop feature! For fsck's sake, I didn't have to reboot Windows 3.1 that often! -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
