On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:41:59PM +0100, Smylers wrote: > Evince is a PDF viewer. Obviously no application should ever be hogging > the sound device such that other apps can't play music -- but at least a > sound-playing app has a plausible reason for why it's doing _anything_ > with the soundcard. > > Whereas Evince was only charged with displaying a document, something > which it was doing reasonably well. It hadn't made any noise. It has > no excuse for being the answer to the question 'what do I have to kill > off to make sound work again?'. That it was is hateful.
I see your hate and raise you: Who the hell designed a sound API where any program that is making sounds exclusively locks access to the sound emitting hardware? WHAT! THE! HELL! -josh
