Luke Yelavich writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:58:26PM EST, Halim Sahin wrote: > Also don't forget that PulseAudio's primary developer doesn't recommend > running PulseAudio system wide, except for special circumstances like > embedded devices wishing to offer PulseAudio's audio networking features. In > any case, Ubuntu will be configured to run speech-dispatcher and pulseaudio > in the user's session, however you will be free to change this should you > wish to do so. >
I engaged him on this point on one of the Fedora lists. Turns out the rationale for this point his highly specious. He claims there's a security concern in that a shared display enviornment might otherwise allow the other user to gain control of the microphone and listen in on a conversation sureptitiously. As I said, it's specious. Listen in on a shared display? How common is the shared display? And, when would it not be in the same room? Probably five feet away? I warrant their was little, or at best highly inadequate use case gathering before pulseaudio went into development. There are also serious issues with pulseaudio on the console that make it simply inappropriate for use as things stand today. Start to play some wav file, then switch consoles. Your audio playing stops until you return to the console where you launched the play command--at which time it resumes precisely where it was when you left that console. This is also inappropriate behavior and further evidence of insufficient use cases before development. I'm not convinced we can rely exclusively on pulseaudio. For one thing, it wouldn't also support non Linux environments like Solaris that still use oss. Janina > Luke > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[email protected] Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility [email protected] Linux Foundation http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
