After many years, finally GNOME, KDE, and legacy applications can co-exist without attempting to kill each other everytime one of them needs to make use of sound for whatever reason.
I feel good.
Thank you Ubuntu, thank you pulseaudio.
Heron comes with all sorts of newfangled stuff including PulseAudio support. This is very nice, but there’s something that not everyone seems to be aware of — PulseAudio and Flash 9 don’t work together by default. You’ll have to install libflashsupport to get audio working in Flash:
sudo apt-get install libflashsupportBest part of all this? Flash audio mixes in perfectly with any other audio without the usual hickups :)