On Sat, 02.01.10 07:08, David Henningsson (launchpad.web at epost.diwic.se) wrote: > I was just thinking, and this idea is perhaps not 100% thought through, > but it could be worth considering. > > We have this hand-over mechanism: > > http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt > > It looks nice, except for that it lives on the session D-bus. Now assume > we move (or copy) it to the system D-bus instead. Then we implement the > handover request in speakup, timidity, and other programs not running > inside the session context. > > This seems like a working middle-way between using the user's PulseAudio > (which seems difficult, especially when it changes) and the path of > uninstalling PulseAudio completely. > > I'm not a qualified plumber, so I could possibly be missing something > obvious here. What do you think? This mechanism depends on cooperating parties. We cannot assume that when multiple users are involved. Ther ealready is a mechanism that handles device handover on session switches, its ck+udev. To implement things properly we should simply use that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
