On 01/26/2012 08:55 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> An answer from a different Walter <G>... >> >>> I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking >>> over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal >>> with audio properly for the future. These days we have computers and >>> devices that can interact with many other things in weird and >>> wonderful ways and software needs to deal with that. >> >> [...deletia...] >> >>> I just curious why you think that it's not useful to the ordinary >>> user in a generic wide way. >> >> I'll throw the question back to you. What specific benefits do you >> see? Not just generalities, but real life benfits, please. > > Bluetooth headset,configured with two or three clicks of a mouse. And > then reroute the sound of Skype (or whatever app) to the headset while > nice background music still plays on the speakers.
Alan, this was what I was thinking when I wrote "useful to everyday ordinary users", though it will never be useful to me. The first thing I do when I hear any sound coming from a new app is do whatever I need to do to make the fscking thing STFU. And talking on the phone with music playing would drive me crazy in seconds. And I would have to strangle any child playing a noisy game and listening to music at the same time. Or even separately. So you can see I'm not the demographic the pulse devs are targeting :)
