On Tue, 23.09.08 11:03, Bill Crawford (billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 01:00:06 Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Actually, nowadays I prefer seeing PA as black box, where only PA > > decides what device clients should be connecting to, not the clients > > themselves. Policy decisions should be up to the sound server, not the > > client. > > This sounds like "we want to control everything" and, as the user of the machine > I want to control everything. It's my tool. That's how I expect it to behave, > not talk back to me (shades of 2001 here). Bah, bah, bah! I take that "world domination" goal very personal, you know? I want to control all your audio streams, muaahahahahah! Muahahahahah! All your streams are belong to us! muahahahaah! Seriously, of course the sound server should decide the device policy based on *user settings*, and it already does just that. PA will decide things for you -- but only based on your preferences. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list