Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 20:37 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> 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
> 

Maybe it was not always this way but it now works by changing the
default ALSA device.

> 
> >>  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. 

That is how it works - it will only change the soundcard mplayer uses if
you have mplayer set to use the default device.  If you have configured
mplayer to use a specific device it will not be affected.

Lee