> It should be possible to have mate-desktop-environment-core depend on both > pipewire-audio and > pulseaudio using alternative dependencies (|), so that the user can choose > which they prefer.
That would be great. ________________________________ From: Brandon Werner <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 14:44 To: Kenshiro [] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bug#1107132: Mate Core: Package should depend on pipewire-audio On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, at 6:39 AM, Brandon Werner wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, at 5:11 AM, Kenshiro [] wrote: Hi everyone, Some of us still prefer PulseAudio. Could the default MATE Desktop installation continue to use it, or at least offer it as an option? The “audiophile” configuration provides very good audio quality, but the current defaults are much lower. You might consider applying these settings by default (or suggesting them upstream to the PulseAudio maintainers): ; PulseAudio “audiophile” settings default-sample-format = s24le default-sample-rate = 44100 alternate-sample-rate = 48000 avoid-resampling = true resample-method = speex-float-5 It should be possible to have mate-desktop-environment-core depend on either pipewire-audio or pulseaudio, so that the user can choose which they prefer. Stating this a little more clearly: It should be possible to have mate-desktop-environment-core depend on both pipewire-audio and pulseaudio using alternative dependencies (|), so that the user can choose which they prefer. Installing either package will fix alsa recordign and playback which is the original reason I filed this bug. I am happy letting the package maintainers choose the default, based on what they think is best. When the default changed occurred downstream of mate in libcanberra-pulse, I personally chose to stick with pipewire because I noticed that it offered Jack support, as well as improved bluetooth support which are both benefits in my workflow.
