[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:25:27PM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 10.02.10 18:49, Jeremy Nickurak (pulseaudio-discuss at trk.nickurak.ca) wrote:
> > Incidentally, this seems to be the same use case that vision-impaired users
> > were dealing with recently: How can system-level processes inject their
> > inputs to the speakers without a system-level pulseaudio daemon sharing that
> > hardware?
> 
> Nope, there should not be a system-level process generating the speech
> audio. It should be a user/session process. Now, unfortunately the
> current solutions are mostly based on system daemons, but that doesn't
> mean that that would be the "correct" way to handle these
> things. Because it is not.

There are a group of us gradually moving everything a11y, including speech output/audio into user sessions, and as discussed last month, an idle like user that consolekit/udev knows about is needed for those speech/audio processes that users want to use so they can get a text console login screen to be usable. Should nobody else get to this in the coming months, this is on my agenda.

Luke