<quote who="Lennart Poettering"> > Didn't you notice? In GNOME we try to get things working smoothly and > easily for 99% of all people. The remaining 1% with those whopping pro > audio soundcards is never what we optimize for.
This is not the best way to communicate our MO. We're very much focused on "Just Works" but it makes no sense to communicate that as to the exclusion of other use cases. Usually we talk about the 99% in terms of people who don't care about their computers as much as we do. Pro audio users are a good example of users who use computers in a highly technical way, but don't actually care about them much beyond their use as a tool. If we can make audio hardware "Just Work" for most use cases, that'll please everyone (even the pro audio users and those highly technical users who care about their computers beyond their use as a tool), and at that point, we can focus on the more complicated use cases. The important point is that building our audio integration strategy around PulseAudio *now* doesn't stop us from handling the pro audio case in the future. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
