On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:34:43PM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns�ker wrote: > Martin-�ric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Just an idea, but IMHO the sound support features should be configured > > globally by the admin for all users. The admin already decided that > > kernel driver X is used to pass sound to the card, he could also > > decide that e.g. Esound will be used for all GNOME sessions and that > > Gstreamer will therefore use the Esound sink. I mean, anything that > > has to do with acccessing hardware belongs to the admin, not to the > > users in GNOME, right? > > Yes, the admin chooses the sound driver, but the users should definitely > be able to choose whether to use Esound, Arts or access the sound device > directly. Consider a user running KDE but who for some reason likes > GStreamer for his multimedia needs. Should he be prevented from choosing > Arts as the default audio sink just because the admin hasn't thought of > the possibility of running GNOME apps in KDE?
Well, if arts is running, the user (or admin) sure cannot chose to use esd or oss/alsa directly, well at least not on my hardware, it would result in the app silently waiting forever. Friendly, Sven Luther
