KDE 4.4's nice integration of Pulseaudio, ALSA, and JACK!

[Niels Mayer <nielsmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE

see http://pulseaudio.org/raw-attachment/wiki/KDE/phonon-pulse-broken.png which allows you to select and prioritize PA/Jack/Alsa

for different audio usage contexts.... very nice way of doing things. Other desktops might take note.

Context:

Simon Lewis' comment about KDE working well w/o pulseaudio prompted me to switch to the KDE desktop. I think he'd already suggested I try krusader (wish they hadn't used that name && they better not start using names with multiple k's in em!), which to get fully working, I ended up installing half of KDE (i'd already gotten the first half with setting up kmplayer). His last comment finished the job and now I appear to be using KDE 4.4.2 (from f12) outright. No more issues with https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/404340 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/472961 (which also affect fedora and gnome in general)....

excerpt from #fedora-kde:

(12:14:34 PM) npm: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445543#c20
(12:15:00 PM) npm: thanks... i'll try the startupnotify thing.
(12:24:16 PM) rdieter: fyi folks, coling asked if we could review this for accuracy, and clarify which fedora versions apply, http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE
(12:27:48 PM) npm: rdieter -- i'll fwd link to http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/
(12:28:07 PM) npm: and thanks for reply to my comment on the bug...
(12:28:10 PM) rdieter: what's planetccrma have to do with it?
(12:28:29 PM) npm: we have issues w/ pulseaudio and a running argument about it all the time (on LAU too)
(12:28:58 PM) npm: planetccrma distributes rpms for audio/video tools and also a rt kernel
(12:29:23 PM) rdieter: ah, cool.
(12:29:33 PM) npm: a comment on there is actually what sent me to try KDE
(12:29:43 PM) rdieter: missed the gear switch away from talking about startup notification. :)
(12:30:54 PM) npm: i posted http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-May/016881.html
(12:31:17 PM) npm: and http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-May/016882.html mentioned KDE
(12:31:54 PM) npm: "On fc12 x86_64 with KDE 4.4.x and Planet CCRMA core packages installed - a simple remove all packages except pulseaudio-libs and pulseaudio-libs-glib2 was sufficient. On restarting KDE, KDE automatically picked-up that the pulseaudio sound server is unavailable and asks whether the pulseaudio configuration should be permanently removed - the answer is a clear yes!"

Niels

http://nielsmayer.com

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