Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Denis Leroy]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
  > Simply put, non-X-console input is a mess (X input is a mess too but
> at least there are people trying to fix it), non-X-console font
> support has fossilized, and support for modern high resolution screens
> is severely lacking.
> 
> The console has not evolved for a long time, while text requirements
> have gone up. At this point a dumbed down text-only X session is
> probably the only credible console future (or something that is not X
> at all but uses many libraries we associate with apps now).
> 
> Non-X-console state is so bad nowadays I don't bother reporting bugs
> on it. Even if they are fixed they always reappear the next Fedora
> cycle.

Well, people can log in, and people can run commands. As long as that 
works, where's the problem ? I understand support for foreign characters 
is going to be a problem, but how does that justify removing the entire 
thing ?


 > There is simply not enough console users [cut] to do anything but
 > life support anymore.

On what facts do you base that opinion ?

I occasionally run into a Gnome app bug where drag'n'drop "hangs" the 
desktop (the "drag" never "drops", sort of) where the only way out is 
ctrl-alt-f1 to mingetty and killall the user-space app. Without 
mingetty, ctrl-alt-del is the only other option (i.e. loose all unsaved 
documents).