[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-28 Thread walt
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Remember arts and esd? They went the way of HAL. Nuff said. The thing to remember is that humans cannot multitask audio very well. Have you ever been talking to someone when the fire alarm went off? Then you'd realise we can multitask

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:08:26 -0500 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-26 Thread pk
On 2012-01-26 12:22, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm not opening up a debate and preparing an argument, I really want to know what you think about this matter. I apologize for butting in... Here's what *I* think about it (well, this is not about Pulseaudio specifically but I'm sure you'll get the

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread walt
On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what would happen if I installed pulse and just didn't start the thing, what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:24:46 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 10:52 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. So what would happen if I installed pulse and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 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.

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-24 Thread walt
On 01/24/2012 01:14 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am upgrading gnome to gnome3 and I find that at least gnome-control-center wants pulseaudio, but I hate pulseaudio and, if possible, don't want to install it at all. I did configure package.provided to not compile, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-24 Thread covici
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 01:14 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am upgrading gnome to gnome3 and I find that at least gnome-control-center wants pulseaudio, but I hate pulseaudio and, if possible, don't want to install it at all. I did configure package.provided