Tried Pulse Audio Again--No Good For A11y
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 24 21:20:59 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> It's fine and good to make things work for people that do session
>> hopping. I just didn't like how the original question seemed to imply
>> that those are the only people we care about.
>
> I didn't quite mean it like that, but X and unix-like systems just
> naturally divorce applications and sessions from hardware and it seems
> wrong to throw that away even if you don't need it today. Especially if
> it is just to avoid the trouble of properly managing profile data.
Indeed; that's almost exactly what I said ranting about Firefox :-D. I'm
very much on your side here (just so long as we don't forget the trivial
case ;-) ).
>> Maybe you could have asked instead, "do we really expect that no one
>> running Fedora has more then one computer?", which indicates a
>> positive interest in such people without seeming to assume that they
>> are the only group that exists.
>
> I'll go even farther that direction if you want: "do you really expect
> that no one running fedora will ever have more than one computer?"
> When/if they do, I'd expect them to want to share resources among them.
I considered that addition to be implied, but yes, that's certainly
fine. Thanks. It's just that the original wording bugged me :-).
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Matthew
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