Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Florian Diesch]

Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> 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.

I don't now where exactly it changes things but from my experience about
2 years ago it doesn't change the ALSA default device. It may have
changed now but Micheal's complains doesn't sound like this


>>  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?

There should be a way to change the ALSA default device. But this should
not change the configuration of any program not using the Gnome
configuration framework like MPlayer. Of course if MPlayer is configured
to use the ALSA default device it uses another soundcard after I changed
the default, but if I told MPlayer to use a specific soundcard this
shouldn't change. 



   Florian
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