[pulseaudio-discuss] Why Gnome "System Sounds" is not a normal program?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 03.01.12 00:53, Roman Beslik (rabeslik at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> As far as I understand, PulseAudio uses an interesting strategy of
> routing sound to several sound cards. Instead of selecting a sound
> card in each client, a sound card is selected in a general program,
> e.g. "pavucontrol."
> 
> There is an exception. The program "System Sounds" is always present
> in "pavucontrol" but without a sound card list. Instead, I chose a
> sound card for system sounds in "gnome-sound-applet." This is
> inconvenient and even strange.

Well, it's quite hard grabbing a volume slider that is visible only for
a very short time, since event sounds tend to be < 1s in length...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.