Re: [orca-list] Punctuation, capital letters, exchange of characters and strings, generally error in the design of Orca

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:52:35PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
 
> I agree that pulseaudio doesn't seem to be the way forward. I have heard
> so much of it here on this list that I thought may be I should try it
> and solve the problems I have for those few apps which don't work with
> alsa or the alsa-oss compatibility system. All my effort lead to me
> concluding that all pulseaudio does is insert another layer of
> complexity which I need to work out how to set up correctly so that all
> apps can produce sound.

There is a list of features here:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#Features

Note that the maintainers of several Linux distributions, Ubuntu and Fedora to
begin with, disagree with the assertion that PulseAudio is not the way
forward. In fact, they think it is so much the way forward that it will be
used by default to control audio output.