[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Lennart Poettering:
> On Tue, 30.09.08 11:28, Gene Heskett (gene.heskett at verizon.net) 
wrote:

> > >You can move any active stream on-the-fly to a different device.
> > > Just right-click on it in pavucontrol. PA will then remember
> > > for later.
> > >
> > >Also, you can easily make a different device default via
> > > paucontrol, too.

Gene, can I say that you want to make sure to really understand what 
Lennart says here? The power pavucontrol gives you as an audio user is 
massive. Stuff like setting devices for live streams of applications 
used to be buried deep deep down. pulseaudio provides a view of your 
sound devices and sound sources that was simply not there before. It 
provides what most people want, actually, only that ...

> > What is pavucontrol?  It was never, ever, part of the kde menu's
> > on this F8, KDE-3.5.9 equipt x86 box.  The tool may well work as
> > advertised, but first it has to be found before it can be used.
>
> It is available in the GNOME menus AFAIR. I do not maintain the
> Fedora KDE packages and I have no idea how well or bad PA is
> integrated in KDE.

... it needs way better integration from distributions. That's where 
userland is important. Make the effort to report KDE's supposed lack 
of pavucontrol (Lennart, couldn't you have called the thing 
pulsecontrol? Ach!) to redhat and it will get fixed. Like Lennart 
says: He's not even aware of it because he's on gnome. Help them and 
people will benefit from it.

Wolfgang