[pulseaudio-discuss] default output for Applications

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 02/02/10 09:34 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tue, 26.01.10 03:46, Igor Zubkov (igor.zubkov at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is better, use native support for PulseAudio in application or
>> use ALSA with alsa-pulse output?
> 
> The fewer layers you stack the fewer potential sources of bugs and
> instabilities you have, the fewer features get lost, the fewer
> resources you consume.
> 
> Minimizing the levels of abstractions is always a good idea. 
> 
> (Of course, this is true everywhere -- except in in KDE. There, other
> rules apply: the more abstraction layers the better. And the mere
> existance of an additional abstraction layers in itself is already a
> benefit that trumps everything else.)

And in some cases it's even required to bypass one of the abstraction
layers to get the information you need in order to achieve a nicely
integrated (from the end user perspective) outcome! But hey, it works
(mostly) :D

Col

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