What really PA needs is some kind of "great switch" for advanced/troubled users. I admit I wasn't found about PA in the past, but now it works. Sure it has quirks but it is really nice feature to "Free Desktop".
However, I think there should be some kind of checkbox or button in Sound caplet which would give dialog where I can switch between PA/JACK/Simple ALSA or whatever is needed. Then it would cover other corner cases - where PA is still glitchy, or people who would like to record something - like using JACK - but still doing it in GUI. And yes, I am tired to kill PA processes when I have to run DVD on gxine (waiting for gst DVD stuff to be completed) :) Just few ideas, Peter. 2009/1/19 Rodrigo Moya <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an >> > icon), so since we already have the applet, I guess it would make sense >> > to add code to the applet to hide itself and start the notification icon >> > if PA is running, or something like that >> >> But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using >> pulseaudio (and it should), then you always want the new icon, >> or it isn't, and then you need something else. If you are using >> pulseaudio, you don't want to have an invisible mixer applet on your >> panel, eating resources and possibly causing other unwanted side >> effects. > > you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you > see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, > so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the > applet, let's use that, but can't think of a better (and quicker) way > right now > -- > Rodrigo Moya <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
