Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 24 21:20:59 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> It's fine and good to make things work for people that do session 
>> hopping. I just didn't like how the original question seemed to imply 
>> that those are the only people we care about.
> 
> I didn't quite mean it like that, but X and unix-like systems just 
> naturally divorce applications and sessions from hardware and it seems 
> wrong to throw that away even if you don't need it today.  Especially if 
> it is just to avoid the trouble of properly managing profile data.

Indeed; that's almost exactly what I said ranting about Firefox :-D. I'm 
very much on your side here (just so long as we don't forget the trivial 
case ;-) ).

>> Maybe you could have asked instead, "do we really expect that no one 
>> running Fedora has more then one computer?", which indicates a 
>> positive interest in such people without seeming to assume that they 
>> are the only group that exists.
> 
> I'll go even farther that direction if you want: "do you really expect 
> that no one running fedora will ever have more than one computer?" 
> When/if they do, I'd expect them to want to share resources among them.

I considered that addition to be implied, but yes, that's certainly 
fine. Thanks. It's just that the original wording bugged me :-).

-- 
Matthew
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in a KDE session. And nothing bad happened whatsoever. Try THAT on 
Windows :-D.




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