Re: complaints against the GNOME team

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>> * I'd like to know the team's position regarding PulseAudio,
>> especially given that it's the hottest thing these days regarding
>> FLOSS audio stuff, and that it's been given publicity in other
>> distros. So, what's holding back PulseAudio from being the default?
>
>  PulseAudio is very cool; I know of many GNOME-ish people in Debian who
>  run it; it's working fine most of the time, but it's not fit for 100%
>  of the users; still, it should probably be the default.  I'm not sure
>  where we stand with pulseaudio, what's missing etc., but I saw Sjoerd
>  work on ALSA integration with a new plugin which allows autodetection
>  of pulseaudio.  What this means is that any ALSA app will use the ALSA
>  pulseaudio plugin IF pulseaudio is running and regular ALSA otherwise;
>  this allows enabling pulseaudio system-wide and unconditionally for
>  everybody.

I hope that sees light in Lenny and thanks for that titbit.

>> * I'd like to know why scrollkeeper is still in Debian, if there's
>> still functionality it provides that rarian-compat does not provide.
>
>  I don't know why you want to replace scrollkeeper; rarian is a rewrite,
>  but its early revisions were not enough to fully replace scrollkeeper.
>  AFAIK, scrollkeeper did its job quite well, albeit very slowly, and
>  rarian being a rewrite had to go through bugs, and was missing
>  documentation for a while.  So apart from speed, which is also
>  mostly addressed by triggers which should be added for both rarian and
>  scrollkeeper, I don't know of much motivation to switch to rarian, or
>  to drop scrollkeeper.  However nothing should be preventing the use of
>  rarian instead of scrollkeeper anymore.

In too many places has it been declared buggy and dead upstream, that
rarian should replace it.

>  I'm afraid the "team" isn't good at communication, we do exchange some
>  bits over IRC mainly.

Thanks for the bits.


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