Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 09:31 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 16 septembre 2008 à 17:28 -0400, Janina Sajka a écrit :
> > Matthias Clasen writes:
> > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:34 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > > > 5.)	While I paplay, I try to go Ctrl-Alt-F1. While I'm not prevented
> > > > from doing so, paplay believes it should pause playing while I'm away
> > > > from the gui tty. Now, who's the genius that figured out this "feature?"
> > > 
> > > Insults won't help your cause. 
> > Well, my apologies if this offends you. Is it supposed to work that way,
> > though? Is there actually a use case for that behavior? Or is this just
> > some incidental artifact?
> 
> This is part of PA's design yes. And many people have already complained
> it was hostile to their computer usage.

"Hostile" is a bit of a hard word here, don't you think? Maybe PA should
offer an option whether to mute/unmute when switching to different VCs
or not as there are valid use cases for both behaviors.

Nils
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