pulseaudio causing crashing of applications

[Rex Dieter]

Laurent Rineau wrote:

> On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:34:30 Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Chris Snook wrote:
>> > Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled that the Gnome developers are pushing
>> > ahead with all this neat stuff, but I wish they'd just let KDE be KDE
>> > if they're not even going to bother testing it.
>>
>> "They" != Gnome developers.  They = KDE SIG.  If you want someone to
>> criticize and blame, blame the right people. :)
>>
>> That said, disabling pa support in kde is relatively simple (we left it
>> optional on purpose):
>> rpm -e kde-settings-pulseaudio alsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>> (and restart your kde session).
> 
> How difficult would it be to make that setting a per-user choice?

Not implemented, patches welcome.  

For lauching the pulseaudio daemon, that's easy, see
/etc/kde/env/pulseaudio.sh
add ability to read user-conf to optionally disable.

To add a per-user ability to override the default alsa device/plugin (ala
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio), that looks a bit harder.

-- Rex