Comments on: gnome-sound-properties

By: ThemePassion - Best stuff about design! » Christian Schaller: gnome-sound-properties

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:10:54 +0000

[...] Aimee Weber wrote an interesting post today!.Here’s a quick excerptI have known for some time that there was a work being done on improving the sound handling in GNOME, but I somehow missed out on it until today. Decided to test a USB headset and figured I would need to edit a GStreamer pipeline to get … [...]

By: jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:32:09 +0000

@ Erik: No, it’s cool when you don’t get a popup, but the sound of skype is automatically routed to your headphone/mic set, and the music stays on the speakers…

By: erik

erik — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:52:59 +0000

Work done? Blah. Until I get that nice popup “ooh, a new audio device. Would you like to prefer this for all your audio needs from now on when you happen to plug it in?” it is just pathetic.

By: doingdoing

doingdoing — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:46:23 +0000

yes. pulseaudio will come with fedora 8 as default sound solution. its more than promising. great features!

By: Kai Schroeder

Kai Schroeder — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:56:06 +0000

You should also give pulseaudio (www.pulseaudio.org) a try. Using the pulse audio server you can even switch the output of a running application from one soundcard to another one (well, and you can do a lot more…).