how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

[Richi Plana]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 15:06 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 18:39 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > However I *do* have a problem with "everything is a complete gdm
> > session" approach. Where does stuff like sound/video PVR streaming
> > server fit? Is it supposed to grow a separate audio backend now?
> 
> How does it work now?  Is it just a background daemon with a web
> interface?
> In that kind case, for something that's specialized for audio in that
> way I'd say just have the app in control.  If they want pulse, they
> should spawn it.  

Actually, I understand if gdm needs to play sounds and is therefore just
another PA sound client (with user gdm), but please don't make gdm the
app that starts the sound server for user desktop sessions. The better
place to make sound server startup an all-in-one solution is the sound
server itself.
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Richi Plana