On 03.01.2018 18:09, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 12:05:21 > From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> > To: Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud at hypra.fr> > Cc: pkg-pulseaudio-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org, > debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: pulseaudio and espeakup > Resent-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:05:39 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org > > Hello, > > Alex ARNAUD, on sam. 30 d?c. 2017 11:21:35 +0100, wrote: >> A possible solution could be to enable to emit sound from TCP or Unix >> socket as described here: >> http://billauer.co.il/blog/2014/01/pa-multiple-users/ > > I thought about it indeed, I'm just afraid it's quite involved. > >> It seems it's not only a accessibility issue because a computer could be >> used by multiple users and in some situations sighted users encounter >> this >> problem also. > > Yes, and such a solution needs cooperation with the pulseaudio > maintainers anyway, we can't tinker something without synchronization. > >> I'm not sure removing PulseAudio is a good idea. As I understand New >> Firefox >> releases require PulseAudio to emit sound. > > Oh right, so we have to bite the itch anyway. > >>> We really need to fix this (and I'm really depressed that it seems >>> nobody took the time to manage to work out a solution). >> >> I agree with you on this particular point but you couldn't miss the >> contribution of Paul and Jeremy on accessibility team on packaging that >> could allow you to focus on more complicated tasks you seems to be >> aware of. > > Sure, I'm really glad to see things happening, thanks a lot to the > contributors :D > > I was just thinking about accessibility in general, AIUI the problem > is generally known since quite a long time, and AFAIK some discussions > happened somewhere on some pulseaudio lists but without actual > conclusions and solutions, while this does not seem to be a so technical > issue like Debian packaging is, so a lot of people could have led the > discussion. > > Samuel Unfortunately the mail does not state what the problem is. Could you please elaborate? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20180103/7ac31c4d/attachment.html>
