Split discussion.
@tinker
tinker wrote:...It is also very disturbing that the epeak messages get broken up...
Which version of oolite are you using?
Which type of installation (i.e. built from code, autopackage, deb)?
I only had these problems when using the O/S's native espeak.
With oolite custom espeak all these problems have been resolved
(tested on Debian5.03, Fedora11, [K]ubuntu8.04-10.04, Mandriva2009, OpenSuse11.1).
caracal wrote:...Oh, I'm putting the blame squarely on PulseAudio. It is widely hated, exactly for problems such as this. There's probably some magic coniguration flyspeck you can put somewhere to make it stop doing that, but ... sigh. Why they chose Pulse, I'll never know. Maybe it was the most portable or something....
I really do not care for who's to blame.
What I care for is give to the Linux user the opportunity to have a blast
playing a game like oolite, as the Mac and Windows user do, considering:
a. the moto "Let's all (gamers, testers, maintainers, developers, managers) have fun"
b. the limited resources we have on adapting Oolite to every distro's need/difference
or even mentality (call me BSD, GNU or call me rpm based, deb based or whatever)
c. deploy a cross/platform game with all these wonderful features our
great-great-great and
development team has created and
not leave the Linux user with a cut-down version
Concerning the speech synthesis (in case of incompatibilities) the user is still free to choose:
1. I like the option of speech synthesis and since my distro does not have
pulseaudio, I will get it and if needed I will configure it. Anyhow it is not
the first time Linux is needing some "touching" to bring it to my needs.
2. I hate pulseaudio or I do not want to configure anything my distro
does not deliver by default (:shock:), therefore, I will use my distro's
espeak/portaudio. If it's buggy, I can live without speech synthesis until
my distro decides to resolve the bugs.
3. I hate speech synthesis (
even with a_c's voice profile?!? ). I turn it off.
Sorry for the long speech (not synthesized
) but the latest issues we
encountered due to distro oriented issues, has really gotten on my nerves.
-- Getafix is now performing his relaxation exercises
Inhale... Exhale saying Goooooooosfraaabaa... Inhale...
EDIT: Now that I finished my relaxation exercises I realized that I forgot
the great-great-great and
expansion packs developed by the community
members making Oolite a really versatile game!