Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:31:58PM +0000, Iain * wrote:
> > Secondly - do you really
> > expect pro audio people to manually quit every other application like
> > gaim, turn off sound events, etc? 
> 
> Pretty much, yes, they do.
> 
> If someone is using an HDR such as Ardour, with say 10 tracks playing
> and one recording in realtime, you don't want the kernel to suddenly
> switch to gaim which then does some silly bit of disk accessing to
> load an icon for a buddy who's just appeared online.
> 
> Basically, when you're using pro-audio stuff, you're don't want to be
> using anything else that might interrupt the system.

Sounds like they should just reboot and boot into ardour distro/partition 
directly.  So maybe thats not a decent use case for GNOME anyway.

sri