Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 18:24 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 13:36 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> >> Yeah, that piece of advice never gets old.  Despite it being repeated
> >> a dozen times or more since I first reported this problem and the fact
> >> that it did no good.
> >> 
> >
> > If this does not work it's a bug in that app and should be reported as
> > such.  
> 
> No. If you change some Gnome settings this only affects Gnome
> programs.

No, the default sound card selection changes the ALSA configuration.  It
works at a lower level than Gnome, and should affect all (correct) apps.

>  It would be a bug if e.g. MPlayer would use the Gnome settings
> instead of its config file settings.

Most users complain that the Linux desktop is not integrated enough.
Are you asserting that this is a feature?  That there should not be a
way to change the default soundcard for all apps?

Lee