On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:25:27PM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 10.02.10 18:49, Jeremy Nickurak (pulseaudio-discuss at trk.nickurak.ca) wrote: > > Incidentally, this seems to be the same use case that vision-impaired users > > were dealing with recently: How can system-level processes inject their > > inputs to the speakers without a system-level pulseaudio daemon sharing that > > hardware? > > Nope, there should not be a system-level process generating the speech > audio. It should be a user/session process. Now, unfortunately the > current solutions are mostly based on system daemons, but that doesn't > mean that that would be the "correct" way to handle these > things. Because it is not. There are a group of us gradually moving everything a11y, including speech output/audio into user sessions, and as discussed last month, an idle like user that consolekit/udev knows about is needed for those speech/audio processes that users want to use so they can get a text console login screen to be usable. Should nobody else get to this in the coming months, this is on my agenda. Luke
