Desktop environments

[Linux for blind general discussion]

It's worse than that even. Firefox has no concept of multiple audio
devices--which is a serious flaw.

Imagine how the sighted user world would react to a browser that limited
itself to a single video display. But, that's the situation with sound.

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
> firefox requires pulseaudio.
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Linux for blind general
> discussion wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:18:05
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: Desktop environments
> >
> > I thought gnome required pulseaudio or it wouldn't run. Stuff like gstreamer and all the major media players eem to want to pull it in.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> > To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:04:44 +0000
> > Subject: Re: Desktop environments
> >
> > > Good to know there are some workarounds for the issues with Pulseaudio.
> > >
> > > Still, I'm quite happy without those 200+ megabytes of bloat and will
> > > be sticking to my strategy of purging Pulseaudio from any system that
> > > installs it by default until given a reason to actually keep it. Then
> > > again, I'm not sure I've ever heard even a sighted user say anything
> > > good about pulseaudio and I'm not even sure what issue with the
> > > lighter, more mature sound system options its supposed to address.
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa