Testing Request for KDE+PulseAudio users

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 October 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> As many of you know, the KDE integration with PulseAudio is severely
>> lacking right now. As PulseAudio adoption is now more or less across the
>> board and as companies like Intel, Palm and (most interestingly) Nokia
>> are currently heavily investing in PA (see Jyri's slides from the LPC
>> conference (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/program/) last week for
>> example), the lack of integration in KDE is obviously something that
>> needs addressed.
>>
> Considering of how litte use pulseaudio is, it mostly just seems like a waste
> of time. I mean how many people actually use networked audio? To point out the
> absurdity; HTTP-proxies are not working in KDE4, and they are needed by a lot
> more people than network-transparent audio.
>
>>
>> Take care and please only post constructive criticism :)
>>
> Okay, I will try to be constructive: Most issues with pulseaudio can be easily
> solved by simply uninstalling pulseaudio.
>
> You sound like you care, so please explain: Why are you using pulseaudio? Do
> you really have a classic networked X11/audio setup and need network-
> transparent audio?
>
> When we got rid  of aRts, one of the things we considered was how to solve the
> need for networked audio after aRts was gone, but we quickly realized that no-
> one was actually using networked audio. So why is pulseaudio being pushed by
> so many people?
>
> It really seems to like somekind of mistake, perhaps strengthed by various
> broken alsa setups where a sound-daemon appears to solve the problem. Helping
> people configure ALSA correctly would probably be a lot easier than supporting
> an extra layer of abstraction (and source of bugs) that no one needs.

I have to agree with Allan here, without meaning to be insulting to
PulseAudio's developers.