Proper PulseAudio - What are KU devs doing about this? - installation for KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor KUbuntu

[giovanni_re]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:45:52 +0100, "Mark Greenwood" <captain_bodge at yahoo.co.uk> said:
> > 2) Here is the suggested set of sw you should install.
> 
> In any up to date distro where it is supported (eg Ubuntu 10.04), it will
> be preinstalled and preconfigured, as it's pretty much a requirement for
> Gnome these days. 

> Under KDE there is a feeling that it's not required as
> KDE has Phonon. In my view (and it seems only the Kubuntu devs disagree
> with me on this) this is a mistake, as Phonon does not provide half the
> functionality of pulseaudio.

Specifically, who is that?

&, it would be great to get a reply from those persons as to their perspective on this issue.

Because, personally, I think it would be well advised to get the functionality of PulseAudio into KUbuntu ASAP.

Kubuntu developers - what are your thoughts, & plans, about getting PA into KUbuntu?

If other distros have this working currently
{Distro Support
The following Distributions are known to provide fully integrated support:
    * Mandriva: 2010.0 onwards
    * Fedora: 13 onwards
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE }

can't this be gotten into KU 10.4? 
Why waste 3 months till 10.10 to get this functionality into KUbuntu?

> 
> A lot of work went into KDE over the last 6 months to make it
> pulseaudio-friendly. However these changes arrived slightly too late for
> the 10.04 Kubuntu release and there were build issues and packaging
> problems that would have been too risky to address at the late stage when
> the problem was identified. Not to mention the fact there appear to be
> two versions of Phonon upstream. I raised the bug, but I didn't spot it
> until the 10.04 RC.
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