Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Dmitry Butskoy]

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.
>   

Me and some people around me use console often enough. Perhaps just by 
habits. Including a habit to "a bigger letter", "less colors", "still 
old monitors", "still wild country" etc.

There is only one big font issue for me, introduced since RHL8 -- switch 
to 512-glyphs default console font (latarcyrheb). Such a font (when > 
256 glyphs) leads to lack of some console colors. (The solution is to 
use another console fonts, which are always present in system).

> The console has not evolved for a long time,

Perhaps all the efforts was focused on GUI (to reach windoze etc.), but 
this does not mean that console (as well as "classical" cmdline 
interface) is an unneeded thing to be supported in a general purpose 
distro...

> Non-X-console state is so bad nowadays I don't bother reporting bugs
> on it. 

Sad.

> There is simply not enough console users and console
> developpers to do anything but life support anymore.
>   

At least 50% of my time is at console, not at X. I would not wish to 
explain why I (still) use console and why, using it, I am not an idiot. 
But I use it, hence I can help...

IMHO, the "not enough console users" is true for the current Fedora 
environment, but not true *in general*. Considering (simplifying) Fedora 
as RedHat employees (focused on GUI for market reasons) plus young 
enthusiasts (who started their life from GUI), we see why we lack 
console for now.


~buc
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