Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 11.10 & Gnome

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:42:55PM GMT, Alex Midence wrote:
> I had one gripe with them it's mandatory Pulse Audio.  It's got issues
> that make life harder for someone who uses a tts and everything I have
> read on forums and postings has led me to believe that its developers
> are insensitive to our needs and unwilling to dedicate some serious
> time to overcome the problems we face with it.  Those two factors in
> and of themselves aren't necessarily what make me feel so negative
> toward it but, add that to its increasingly becoming a dependency for
> distributions and even desktops in spite of these issues upsets me.
> But, if I'm going to be upset with Ubuntu over Pulse, I have to cary
> that over to gnome and KDE and probably even XFCE, Fedora Linux, Arch
> linux and even Debian. 

Thats not true, the pulse developers are very receptive to our needs, but its not something that needs 
changing in pulseaudio. Instead, for the most part, its our software that needs changing. Yes ConsoleKit 
needs a bit of work to allow us to use TTS with console logins, but other than that, changes need to be made 
in espeakup, speechd-up, speech-dispatcher, etc to work with consolekit, and thereby run with as few 
privileges as possible. There are those of us who know what needs doing, but its a matter of us finding the 
time to do it.

Luke