Re: sound init in gnome-settings-daemon

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Looking at how to improve gnome-session startup, I found both
> gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon are starting ESD.
> 
> I guess we really want one of them to start it, so which one should be
> removed? My first thought is to remove the one in g-s-d. Is that ok? Or
> am I missing anything?

Yes. And there is another problem, that sound volume is initialized by
mixer applet, which is too late for startup sound.

It would be nice to initialize volume as soon as possible, not by
applet.

People then complain, that startup sound is too loud:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8079
(no additional related info there)

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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