how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Denis Leroy]

Michael E Brown wrote:

> Your use case is slightly outside of the "out-of-the-box" experience for
> fedora... There aren't PVR apps or any of the other things you are
> talking about in the box with fedora as it stands now. SOOOOO... 

I'm bothered by that comment. Since when is Fedora a "box" ? i thought 
it was more of a platform to build on (ok, more like: a luxury house 
around which you can build yourself a nice garden :-) ).

Here's my use scenario. I have a Zonbu here at home that I use as a 
"courtesy" system in my living room. That is, when I have visiting 
friends or relatives, they can use the system to check their email and 
such. Because the zonbu is so low-power and quiet, it's almost always on 
and the user logged in. Gdm is configured to autologin a guest user here.

The zonbu is also connected to my stereo system, which i can hear from 
my office. So i will often ssh into the zonbu and play an mp3 from the 
wireless-mounted NFS directory. Now PA means i have to log in as the 
same guest user, which is not necessarily ideal because of the nfs mount 
permissions, but certainly workable. Now of course i can just disable PA 
in this case and be happy. But you were asking for a specific scenario.