[Shish2k]

> I would expect it to not be designed/authored by the man behind pulseaudio

Having used a bunch of Lennart's software, I'm generally coming to the conclusion that he's better at ideas than code -- but once his projects take off and the bugs get fixed, the end result is significantly better than what we had before.

(Using pulseaudio as a specific example, per-app volume controls and easily mixing and matching sound sources and playback devices; seamlessly switching from speakers to headphones to HDMI to a sound server on another PC entirely, etc -- features that are too high-level for the kernel and too low-level for applications, and thus can only be brought into existence by a fairly large change in the audio stack)