whither xfce4-mixer?

[Allin Cottrell]

I wonder if anyone is thinking about what to do with 
xfce4-mixer now that gstreamer 1.0 is released, and the old 
mixer API is gone? The prospect is that before too long, as 
the distros update gstreamer, running xfce4-mixer will require 
a parallel installation of the obsolete gstreamer 0.10.

It's a bother that the mixer API has been removed, but the 
argument is that using gst is not the right way to do this, 
and that mixers should interface directly with ALSA.

Sorry to be just a consumer -- I'm unlikely to have time to 
contribute patches -- but I'd note that if anyone's thinking 
of working on this, looking at gamix might be useful. It's a 
perfectly good GUI ALSA mixer, except that it uses the 
long-obsolete GTK 1.2. The ALSA interface code might be 
reusable.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC