On Tue, 25 May 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:12:18AM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker wrote: > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > 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. > > > > Exactly, the user _needs_ to be able to override the global default > > setting in cases like this. > > Nope, the system should know that either esd or arts is running, and > transparently set the correct device (or sink, or whatever) for all > apps, be they KDE or gnome or whatever.
Precisely. The user should not have to reconfigure the audio sink according to which environment he is _currently_ using and then reconfigure again if he logs from a different workstation running a differnent default environment. In my case, fast machines run GNOME 2.x, while slow ones run IceWM. GNOME starts Esound, while IceWM doesn't have a native sound daemon. Still, I don't want to have to manually edit the sink, just because I ended up loging on a deifferent workstation that day. -- Martin-�ric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
