[arch-general] OT: [arch-dev-public] polkit package upgrade patch

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Sat Aug 11 18:15:14 EDT 2012


On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> So imagine the average desktop user who gets five or so of
> them:
>
> - one provided by the application (player or something)
> - one provided by PA or similar,
> - probably two by the soundcard mixer,

PA combines these three into one. So the non-audio-engineer user
should have a lot bigger chance of not messing things up with PA
compared to with pure ALSA (where you do have to fiddle with all the
mixers and the application mixer on top).  Sorry if this was what you
were trying to point out.

-t


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