On 2015-10-19 14:27, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 19 October 2015 at 05:41, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: >>> (Side note: I would have liked to see the device reservation protocol on >>> the system bus instead of the session one, but that's likely too late to >>> change now) >> >> I think it's probably possible to do the transition to the system bus, >> if we just can find someone to write patches for both PulseAudio and >> Jack. During a transition phase we would have to use both buses, to >> cooperate with applications using only the session bus. > > Note that now that everyone is moving to a user instead of session > bus, Are we? :-) I haven't heard anything about e g Ubuntu switching over, but I could have just missed it? > the benefits of moving to the system bus are reduced. For me the main use case would still be collaboration between a user-level PulseAudio and system-level daemon(s). Which does not change with the move from session to user. > Also, who > would ship the dbus/polkit policy to allow logged in users to own the > name? Hmm, that's a good point. As a starting point, maybe the same package that gives access to the soundcard itself to logged in users? -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
