Olivier Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I never wanted to do so because I think user can be surprised by > > the output plugin changing "automatically". Additionally, if then > > user launches xmms from commandline and soundwrapper chose, say, > > arts, if arts is no longer running xmms will be suddenly not > > working. > > So why not make a script that would be runned by the user to > automatically detect the best sound output available ? > > I would be nice to add a button in xmms preferences to do this :)
I think that "run by the user" is not a good solution to this problem. This problem mostly comes from newbies unable to manually select the correct plugin; asking them to go in the preferences and click a button to detect the plugin is a little bit better, granted, but not much. Moreover, compared to the work needed to add that. If it's in xmms, it should be run automatically, when, for example, the "auto-detect" virtual output plugin is selected (that's +/- what I suggested to xmms developers. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
