Bug#407598: One more opinion.

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Le 4 janvier 2008, Raúl Sánchez Siles a écrit :
>   Hello Filipus:
> 
>   IMHO, I think you are mixing different concepts. One thing is system wide 
> volume level which are stored on a system wide basis, previosluy with 
> alsa-utils init script ( no longer present) and another, different, thing is 
> user level volumes.
> 
>   Once you power your system up you start it as system wide and hence the alsa 
> init script do its work. Remember you are not forced to log in when you power 
> on your computer. This would be the case for example a media center.
> 
>   After this, you are free to log in and there is where kmix is doing it's 
> job.
> 
>   The problem as you say is when you shutdown. Well, it is certain that alsa 
> will store the settings for the last user that changed them, but otherwise, 
> alsa would have to take into account what user has the right to do these 
> operations and remember it, this is not very handy. 

I don't understand this sentence. Since it's certain that alsa will store the settings for the last user that changed them, how can you write about a different situation?