More PulseAudio and Skype stuff

So, here we are a few months after Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS appeared,
the new OS - Kubuntu 10.04 LTS - (LTS means Long term support) will be
supported for the next year or two with updates and fixes. good.
of course Pulseaudio is in the Ubuntu (Gnome) distro,
but not Kubuntu. I Understand that Skype is proprietry, and hope they would
fix thhe bugs a little quicker,Ubuntu are going as quick as they can i guess.

Question is Ubuntu, Why dont you include the (almost always needed) padevchooser?
come to that, why doesn't every distro ? ok. so i dislike GNOME, i mean its not
the early 90's is it ? so i use the splendid KDE Desktop Environment. and
Pulseaudio is'nt a included component of KDE usually, mostly just in Gnome distro's.

So I was looking forward to seeing Skype working nicely on Kubuntu 10.04..
No. After tweaking, restarting, recompiling ALSA and my Realtek ALC 272
audio system all over again, there was still breakage.

I Know the Kubuntu dev team are busy, but it seems more and more that
the bigger and busier Ubuntu get, the less and less inclined they are listen
to single voices. An example was, as i am a launchpad member, basically told to
create a PPA to fix the OS then ignored, after being insulted and pulled-up for
my formatting of a bug report, you know, length of lines, paragraphs etc etc.
my eyesight is very poor, expect no help from me or bug reports from now on Launchpad.

I believe the problem is with Skype itself, but i hope the upstream devs may take
notice my bug reports and to help fix this audio issue, by including Pulse
(and Padevchooser) or explain why NOT. unless of course i'm the only one having this problem,

Everyone who wants to use Kubuntu should get a working Skype without pissing around,
something like firstly deciding to Google for the problem,
then find my little post, understand what i'm saying and then add the PPA... that,
or just installing the OS and the app, and expecting it to actually work.
or - maybe i'm just getting old and grumpy.or maybe i missed someting in the
last 12 years of using Linux and free software.
So .. still so many more people are using pulseaudio, so i relented and did a

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio then
sudo apt-get install padevchooser

and tried Sykye again... of course the audio devices, (after a reboot)
were all set to pulseaudio. ok. as i went round and set all my audio apps
outputs to pulse. had to then use padevchooser to set the mic vol up about 3/4
then i tried Skype, and after a crackly reply and a bit less mic gain, a working
Skype test call was received !!! then a day later, a Skype update came down.
i was sure this would break it again, it didn't. crumbs. so thats the secret ?
install and use pulseauduio system-wide on the distro which ships without it,
because the one app (Skype) needs it.

So, if you use KDE 4 and Pulseaudio is NOT installed as an option in
the Phonon config.. do as above and you should be good.

So why, now 10.04 LTS is here, why dont they dont install padevchooser on Ubuntu
or pulseaudio in KUBUNTU. i dont care for pulseaudio still, but seeing as
most Linux's are using it, either install it fully, or not at all. dammit,
i just want working audio...