On 07/04/2014 10:19 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote: >> PulseAudio is everywhere now, and it's mature enough already to be used >> as the default backend. > > doing something because everyone is doing it has not been a good reason > for acting in the past with several awful examples in human history.
Eh, please keep that in philosophy class. > Can you provide a more technical reason? Why should we skip using the > gstreamer layer and directly communicate with pulseaudio? If I > understand the gstreamer design correctly, it ends up using pulse > underneath, anyway. I already explained that. Pulse Audio has become the de-facto standard audio server on Linux and MATE should therefore install it's PA backend by default. You also only get a fully working Pulse Audio volume control [1] in MATE when mate-media-pulse is installed. Adrian > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControl#User_Experience -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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