On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:12 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > 2009/5/27 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>: > > So is the only way to communicate with pulse other than brute force kill or > > "pasuspender" to use the dbus protocol? > > Probably yes, since it seems that PA's client API doesn't contain > functions for suspending sinks (i.e. release devices). But why would > you want to use something else than D-Bus? This piece of functionality > was developed in cooperation with the Jack developers for just this > use case (or so I believe). Even if there were other ways, Jack would > need to modified to use those ways, so what's wrong with this > particular solution? > Just to butt in for a bit on this point, there's a big discussion currently in the jack-devel ML concerning jackdbus. As of this time, it seems to me that its likely dbus support in jack would be optional (plug-in or something of that nature). The upshot of that would be that it would be the decision of packagers whether jack for a particular distro would contain dbus. The issues some have with dbus in the jack-devel ML is basically breakage of legacy as well as some licensing issue with the LGPL jack uses.
