As a coment to people suggesting suspending Pulse is the solution - a lot of people play WoW with a Ventrilo client and need to hear the sound from *both*, also it is common to have some relaxing music in the background from a non-Wine source. Pulse and DMix can provide that, but DMix is a pain to configure, while Pulse looks to be nicely preconfigured out-of-the-box in latest distributions, so supporting such mode of operation by default would be very useful.
As a coment to people suggesting suspending Pulse is the solution - a lot of people play WoW with a Ventrilo client and need to hear the sound from *both*, also it is common to have some relaxing music in the background from a non-Wine source. Pulse and DMix can provide that, but DMix is a pain to configure, while Pulse looks to be nicely preconfigured out-of-the-box in latest distributions, so supporting such mode of operation by default would be very useful.