Author: Didier Kryn Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] ASCII Sprint: apulse and surf2 in ascii -- please test
Le 18/12/2017 à 21:56, etech3 a écrit : > On 12/18/2017 12:47 PM, KatolaZ wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:34:01PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>> Le 16/12/2017 à 11:45, KatolaZ a écrit :
>>>> the Devuan ASCII sprint will continue through the week-end. Just to
>>>> let you know that apulse (pulseaudio->alsa compat layer) and surf2
>>>> (the suckless browser) are now in ASCII. Feel free to give them a try
>>>> and report any issue.
>>> apluse is installed in its own place in the hierarchy. It is not
>>> installed as a replacement for pulseaudio - otherwies it should
>>> conflict
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> Therefore its use is limited to software which is compiled
>>> locally, and
>>> I think it cannot act as a compatibility layer for ready-made
>>> packages like
>>> Skypeforlinux. Skypeforlinux has no sound when pulseaudio isn't
>>> install,
>>> even when apulse is.
>>>
>>> However I'm not sure Skypeforlinux is still usefull since it
>>> seems to
>>> have exactly the same UI as Skypeweb.
>>>
>> Hi Didier,
>>
>> I have no pulseaudio running and skypeforlinux still works (yes, I
>> need to use it, unfortunately). I don't understand what you mean
>> "installed in its own place in the hierarchy". apulse is not a
>> replacement to pulseaudio, just a wrapper to foul apps around to
>> believe that pulseaudio is running. I don't think we can really
>> replace deps to pulseaudio with deps to apulse, tbh.
>>
>> My2Cents
>>
>> KatolaZ
>>
> KatolaZ :
> What about Twinkle instead of skypeforlinux?
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