On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:13 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Mike Hearn"> > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:31:30 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > This is passing the buck a bit but I'd like to hear from some of the > > > teams that would be using this - Helix, GStreamer, Rhythmbox, Sound > > > Juicer, whoever. > > > > A slightly lame question from me, but is there general consensus amongst > > multimedia developers (I'm not one) that the desktop-level sound server is > > architecturally the right way to go? > > One of the best arguments I've heard for having a user-daemon sound server > is that it'll be far more receptive to dynamic reconfiguration via D-BUS What reconfiguration would you want to do? > or > similar tools, and doesn't have to run as root. Note with alsa, there is no other process at all, so even better from a security standpoint.
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