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Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze



Halim Sahin, le Sat 25 Sep 2010 09:28:23 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fr, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:42:47 +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > This is not so easy as just writing audio to roots default
> > soundcard. The root would need to know which is the
> > proper audio device for the target user, and that is being
> > assigned dynamically in Pulse Audio, AFAIK.
> > 
> > I don't think it is Speech Dispatcher's task to, for every
> > user, query their current audio device setup, listen for
> > fallbacks on sink changes in PA etc. This sounds difficult!
> 
> Colin Guthrie from Pulseaudio project wrote this about the prefered
> design how things can work nicely togehter:
> --
> speech-dispatcher itself can do all the necessary work in a system-wide
> process but only the speech-dispatcher-agent will actually cause any
> audio to be output. The agent runs as the same user as the PA process
> (whether this be the pseudo session's "user" or the real user).

That looks actually weird to me.  If you have multi seats, you do _not_
want a system-wide process, just one per seat.

Samuel


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