Colin Guthrie wrote: > '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. Yes, I use that gui too, that is what I had in mind. I didn't know there was any other method to accomplish this, though. > > 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. For now it has been only in the instances where some applications do not work properly with pulseaudio. > 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. Yes, I understand. I guess the thesis is that such a start/stop or restart control is not needed with the assumption being a user does never need to use that feature. I am not sure the assumption is valid at present; though I would love to proved wrong. The other way is to look at this is that such a control might be useful while the application is being developed and it some applications do not work properly with it. In any case, it was just a little feedback though I admit I might not being seeing the opposing point of view (or I might just not being seeing the problems such a control could create in the overall sound system of a machine). If the said feature is not desired, it would be helpful is somebody could explain why. Please keep in mind that this feedback is strictly from a user's point of view. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read.
