Pulse audio

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le jeudi 08 octobre 2009 à 14:14 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit :
> Ubuntu did not show particular interest in any of the above
> policies. Typically, the new software replaces the old one, period.

It's simply not true. GNOME 2.26 (ie jaunty cycle) enforced the
pulseaudio requirement and we did distro change several GNOME components
to not force that upon our users. The thing is that spending efforts to
go against upstream is a waste of energy since:

- those efforts are not spent fixing issues
- you don't benefit from upstream changes
- you don't work with upstream to improve things and create your own set
of issues nobody will be wanting to look at for you

We did follow upstream this cycle because now is about time to follow
upstream and get things sorted if we want ubuntu to be good for the next
lts, using old years versions just don't work, you stay on the same bugs
and don't benefit from new technologies, work from other people, over
time it also break extra softwares which rely on things you refuse to
use, etc



>  See
> e.g. the shiny new IM software that will replace the old one, and
> karmic
> users will love. The only advantage that it should offer is voice and
> video calls. I never succeded in having it work for voice/video. And
> it
> is so badly broken in other areas 

Could you give details on how it's broken for you? We did the technology
change this cycle to be ready for the lts version. You seem to miss one
of the reason which motivated the change which is the telepathy stack
which will allow better desktop integration (sharing screen over vnc is
one thing ready this cycle, next versions should allow you to share
things like your music with your im contacts too for example). Note that
upgraders are not migrated and pidgin is still available for those who
install karmic and want to use it. The user feedback showed some issues
but that things are mostly working for most users too.

Sebastien Bacher