Ludovic Courtès writes: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > >> I guess the factors are: >> 1) Does GuixSD have a default audio setup that we should target? If >> GuixSD uses PulseAudio, then I think it would be good for eSpeak to be >> integrated into that sytem. >> 2) Does this package, which launches PulseAudio, work for anyone on a >> foreign distro? > > It’s not written anywhere, but I think most of our audio packages target > PulseAudio (that’s what I use on GuixSD.) I’m in favor of consistently > using it, and it would probably be best to write it down in the manual. > > Thoughts? > > Ludo’.
I'd really like it if we just agreed that in general, yeah, we want Pulseaudio support. I used to spend all sorts of time fighting my audio setup, being careful on what application opened first so I could be sure which one grabbed control of Alsa. I hadn't had this problem in a few years, and it was so nice not to worry about it, but on Guix I've had some times where I have again... eg playing audio/video in Icecat seems not to use it for whatever reason, and it's a bummer, because then I have to be careful about when I start rhythmbox or whatever. I'd love to mostly not worry/think about audio issues again!
