Re: [Cooker] Proposal for 2008.0: PulseAudio as default

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 19:30 +0100, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:

> +1
> 
> However, if all sound drivers finally have dmix support in 2008.0, do we 

I bet they won't. We've been talking about this for years now. Hell, we
didn't even get rid of all OSS drivers yet.

> really need to have a sound server ? Of course there's the sound throught 
> network part, but after ? ability to control volume individually from each 
> application ? KDE 4 will be able to do it ...

...for KDE apps.

What about GNOME? What about non-KDE apps?

Does KDE 4 do sound adapter hotplugging, per-application default device,
etc?

I still don't think there's anything else out there with a) the scope
and b) the depth of features of Pulse.

I really suggest people try it out - the current Cooker packages are
fine, follow http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup to set it up -
before jumping to the conclusion that it isn't needed.
-- 
adamw