[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #639: Phonon error-messages about not working device after KDE-login.

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#639: Phonon error-messages about not working device after KDE-login.
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  Reporter:  COMER352L  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed 
 Milestone:             |   Component:  daemon 
Resolution:  invalid    |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by coling):

 I apologise if I came across as arrogant, but I do have to deal with a lot
 of people who harbour very ill informed opinions about various aspects of
 Linux audio and sometimes I guess I don't articulate myself as best I
 could.

 I've got a pretty good understanding of both the PulseAudio and the Phonon
 source and their use cases and I personally wouldn't hold them in a
 position to be vaguely comparable. The address very different spaces in
 the Linux audio stack and I could happily inform you of why there is not
 even any point in trying to discuss a comparison if you want although I
 appreciate that could go on for a while :p

 The doubts expressed regarding PA usually result from a poor experience at
 the distro level (certain very popular distros that will remain nameless
 have had a poor track record with understanding and integrating PA
 properly, which has lead to such backlashes - this is thankfully changing
 now). Additionally, the KDE communities' use of Xine as a preferred Phonon
 backend, which happens to have a particularly poor implementation of a
 pulse output plugin, has not lead to great opinions of PulseAudio
 generally. For both these reasons and due to bugs in several ALSA level
 drivers relating to the bleeding edge features that PulseAudio takes
 advantage off, PA has had some bad publicity, but really this is just the
 result of mis-information and people not caring enough about such topics
 to find out the real facts before blaming the easiest candidate.

 I'm not saying that pulse is the most amazing awesome thing ever with no
 bugs or problems, but it's certainly the best hope we have of a sane audio
 stack on Linux and those who care to take the time to research and
 understand such things generally agree.

 Again I apologise if I was arrogant before and I would encourage you to
 write up more bug reports. In this case the bug report is genuinely
 invalid and as stated before (albeit perhaps without due care and
 attention) the correct fix is to integrate phonon with PA properly, which
 I've been doing.

 Take care and all the best.

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