acollins at icsmail.net, le Mon 13 Dec 2010 08:15:05 -0600, a ?crit : > Hi all. It seems to me that what we are discussing is a bit like > telling a normal user that he has to be root in order to view the > screen. Not quite the same thing, but you get the idea. Most folks > these days a re using a software synth, which relies on the sound card > in the system. Most distros put access to the sound card in a special > audio or sound group. If somebody tweaks the sound card, the softsynth > goes away too. Not really. That's the kind of things that consolekit permits to properly handle. > So I can't see why world rightable files for speakup is > such a big deal. It's not a big deal, but it's supposed to be handled like it has been for sound cards. Samuel