kmix PulseAudio support

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 07 January 2010, Christian Esken wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010 00:59:17 schrieb Helio Chissini de Castro:
> > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 17:09:17 Christian Esken wrote:
> > > > > sprint multimedia will be a ground zero point to new mixer
> > > > > interface and
> > >
> > > What exactly do you mean with "new"?!?
> > >
> > > You guys get me quite confused in this mail thread. Please do not say
> > > "it is bad" or "lets change things" without indicating what you mean.
> >
> > Moin Christian
>
> Hi Helio.
>
> Foreword: Please everybody understand: I am really happy that KMix gains so
> much attention at the moment. I hope you will not be offended by some of my
> rants. But keep in mind: new things are cool, but we have a terrible amount
> of bugs in the new things.
>
> > I think is time to separate backends and frontend
>
> In terms of different processes? I thought about it during the design for
> KDE4, and gave it up for the following reasons:
>
> 1) You will have to pass horribly much through DBUS
> 2) The delays will likely suck
> 3) It will have a very negative impact on battery usage for mobile devices.
>  At least for Backends w/o poll(). And actually ALSA is not 100% poll(), as
> we use a timeout for the poll().
>
> Probably I am wrong here. But please take some time to think about it.

You have my full support with your view of the issue.

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Alex