[Mageia-dev] Re Skype Version

Wed Jun 8 14:34:26 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+[Friendly request: Please try not to post HTML messages to this list and
+also please try to quote properly. As your mail client broke the
+threading, and no parts of the original message were quoted, it is very
+hard to tell to which message you were replying!!]
+
+'Twas brillig, and brianbailey10 at aol.com at 07/06/11 19:17 did gyre and
+gimble:
+> Hi, I don't have a problem or issue using Skype, this was a reply to
+> someone who was asking what version Skype would work. 
+
+Hmm, sorry, the message did not look like a reply. I don't see the
+original message there, and there is no "Re: " prefix on the subject...
+perhaps this is just your mail client being weird as mentioned above.
+
+
+> As I said if a
+> later version is used which happens to be a beta problems may occur when
+> trying to configure the sound and audio devices
+
+What problems do you refer to?
+
+> - bearing in mind Skype
+> is a closed source code and I doubt if it's possible to change things
+> within Skype!
+
+I'm relatively friendly with some Skype devs and have helped them in the
+past with PulseAudio support, so this is not beyond the realms of
+possibility.
+
+> I have used Skype for over 5
+> years on a daily basis running both under Windows (various versions) and
+> Mandriva Linux, and the version I stated works well on my system using
+> various USB devices which can be configured via Kmix, the newer beta
+>  version appears to have issues in selecting audio devices, I would
+> suggest that you download both versions (old and the new beta) and try
+> them out. 
+
+This is perhaps a misinterpretation of how things should work these
+days. Individual applications should generally not "select the audio
+devices" themselves but leave it up to a central GUI to do that. When
+run with PulseAudio you can use Skype and select which devices you want
+to use via the System Settings -> Multimedia device by selecting the
+appropriate devices for the "Communications" category. Either that or
+you can wait until Skype is running and then use Kmix to move Skypes
+streams to the appropriate devices by right clicking on the skype
+streams in the Playback or Recording tabs and selecting from the Move...
+submenu.
+
+Central GUI to configure all applications. No need to hunt around in
+individual applications for strange and hidden configuration options!
+Progress!
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
+Day Job:
+  Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/]
+Open Source:
+  Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/]
+  PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/]
+  Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
+