how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 19 décembre 2007 10:20, Lennart Poettering a écrit :

> The right behaviour is to make sure inactive sessions cannot interfere
> with your IO devices while they are inactive. And IO devices are
> keyboards, mice, screens *and* sound cards.

Sound cards are *not* like keyboards, mice and screens.
A keyboard is only providing a service to the person typing on it
A mice is only providing a service to the person which has it in its hand

Any semi-decent speaker can provide music services to everyone in a
room, (even a different room of the one where the computer is) not
just the person in front of the computer. Time shifting means a user
can access sound devices even after his desktop session went inactive
or closed.

Printing is outputting info too. Will we limit printer access to the
active session too to get the "right" behaviour?

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot