15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
7:14 p.m.
John Rigg:
I don't have a problem with the average desktop user wanting their sound cards to be easy to use. I just have a problem with the idea that the tools I rely on to do my job might be broken by a "one size fits all" approach to all audio interfaces.
Yes, there is no "one size" that will fit all. As there ain't "two sizes" that would fit two distinct parties ("consumers" and "professionals"). The distinction is pretty useless.
ALSA does the right thing to init with everything muted. So the next best place to do anything useful is distro installation and hotplug events. Distros should really improve their mechanisms to ask and remember what the user wants.
Wolfgang