On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Fri, 01.01.10 12:43, Markus Rechberger (mrechberger at gmail.com) wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Bill Cox <waywardgeek at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Since I didn't get much response with my more polite e-mail, here's >> > what I really think, given my current ignorance about pulseaudio... >> > >> > PulseAudio is cool, but I fear it's over-engineered by some Ph.D's >> > with too much elegance in their solution, and not enough real world >> > experience. ?Run as user? ?Really? >> > >> >> it would be ok as long as it would support multiple users. >> The problem is that it doesn't care about /etc/group audio permissions and thus >> breaks backward compatibility with alsa. > > That is bullshit. > >> You have a few options >> * the easiest one is to remove pulseaudio and get audio work again as >> it was meant to be (which is also conform to all other unixsystems) > > Please don't post FUD like this on this ML. If you want to spread FUD > then I can tell you there are much better fora for that. > Lennart, this is more likely your way to ignore user requests. I would really appreciate it if you could respond in a more problem solving way. The problem still remains that other users need or want to access the audio system and not only a single user. The solution should be usable by endusers (seems like you use to forget about them sometimes), The pulseaudio config should be handled by the distros - fine but then how should the enduser easily modify PA for his needs the average Windows user definitely cannot handle Linux configuration files. Markus
