On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> * I'd like to know the team's position regarding PulseAudio, >> especially given that it's the hottest thing these days regarding >> FLOSS audio stuff, and that it's been given publicity in other >> distros. So, what's holding back PulseAudio from being the default? > > PulseAudio is very cool; I know of many GNOME-ish people in Debian who > run it; it's working fine most of the time, but it's not fit for 100% > of the users; still, it should probably be the default. I'm not sure > where we stand with pulseaudio, what's missing etc., but I saw Sjoerd > work on ALSA integration with a new plugin which allows autodetection > of pulseaudio. What this means is that any ALSA app will use the ALSA > pulseaudio plugin IF pulseaudio is running and regular ALSA otherwise; > this allows enabling pulseaudio system-wide and unconditionally for > everybody.
I hope that sees light in Lenny and thanks for that titbit. >> * I'd like to know why scrollkeeper is still in Debian, if there's >> still functionality it provides that rarian-compat does not provide. > > I don't know why you want to replace scrollkeeper; rarian is a rewrite, > but its early revisions were not enough to fully replace scrollkeeper. > AFAIK, scrollkeeper did its job quite well, albeit very slowly, and > rarian being a rewrite had to go through bugs, and was missing > documentation for a while. So apart from speed, which is also > mostly addressed by triggers which should be added for both rarian and > scrollkeeper, I don't know of much motivation to switch to rarian, or > to drop scrollkeeper. However nothing should be preventing the use of > rarian instead of scrollkeeper anymore. In too many places has it been declared buggy and dead upstream, that rarian should replace it. > I'm afraid the "team" isn't good at communication, we do exchange some > bits over IRC mainly. Thanks for the bits. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
