Proper PulseAudio - What are KU devs doing about this? - installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor KUbuntu

[claydoh at midmaine.com]

> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:45:52 +0100, "Mark Greenwood"
> <captain_bodge at yahoo.co.uk> said:
>> > 2) Here is the suggested set of sw you should install.
>>
>> In any up to date distro where it is supported (eg Ubuntu 10.04), it
>> will
>> be preinstalled and preconfigured, as it's pretty much a requirement for
>> Gnome these days.
>
>> Under KDE there is a feeling that it's not required as
>> KDE has Phonon. In my view (and it seems only the Kubuntu devs disagree
>> with me on this) this is a mistake, as Phonon does not provide half the
>> functionality of pulseaudio.
>
> Specifically, who is that?
>
> &, it would be great to get a reply from those persons as to their
> perspective on this issue.



This question might be better asked in the kubuntu-devel list or in
#kubuntu-devel on freenode as you will more likely get a response there,
imo.

Clay

> Because, personally, I think it would be well advised to get the
> functionality of PulseAudio into KUbuntu ASAP.
>
> Kubuntu developers - what are your thoughts, & plans, about getting PA
> into KUbuntu?
>
> If other distros have this working currently
> {Distro Support
> The following Distributions are known to provide fully integrated support:
>     * Mandriva: 2010.0 onwards
>     * Fedora: 13 onwards
> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE }
>
> can't this be gotten into KU 10.4?
> Why waste 3 months till 10.10 to get this functionality into KUbuntu?
>
>>
>> A lot of work went into KDE over the last 6 months to make it
>> pulseaudio-friendly. However these changes arrived slightly too late for
>> the 10.04 Kubuntu release and there were build issues and packaging
>> problems that would have been too risky to address at the late stage
>> when
>> the problem was identified. Not to mention the fact there appear to be
>> two versions of Phonon upstream. I raised the bug, but I didn't spot it
>> until the 10.04 RC.
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