'Twas brillig, and H.S. at 27/12/08 00:17 did gyre and gimble: > Sending the streams of an application to a different sink seamlessly is > a heck of a job! What do you mean by this? Personally I find it quite easy with pavucontrol, although it could use some UI love for sure. > I noticed that sometimes one needs to stop pulseaudio and then start it > again. For now, the solution is to kill pulseaudio process and then > start is in daemon mode (pulseaudio -D) via the command line. If > pulseaudio is not running, then pulseaudio manager just shows > "disconnected" as the status. The user then at first tires to "connect" > somehow and is confused what is going on. > > Could the developers put a button in pulseaudio that toggles pulseaudio > for the user? This way, if it is not running the user can clearly make > that out and click on that button to start it. The Start/Stop button > could make the pulseaudio manager GUI a lot more intuitive. > > If you rather, I can file a bug in Debian's pulseaudio package for this > enhancement. > > Having said this, perhaps the developers have a better way to provide > this functionality to the user. If so, I would appreciate an elaboration. > > I have pulseaudio 0.9.10 in Debian. This is just putting wallpaper over the cracks rather than underpinning the subsidence! It would be much better to find out *why* you need to restart pulseaudio and solve that problem instead. Personally I don't have much problem and with 0.9.12+ pulse now autospawns by default when it's needed so you shouldn't really have to start pulseaudio at all... I doubt very much any modification along the lines you suggest would be accepted upstream, but I could be wrong. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
