need testing - xfce 4.4.2 installer package

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> David Mohr wrote:
>> On 12/4/07, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
>>> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>>> Off-topic: We should replace that crappy piece of software anyway.
>>>> Whenever I want to record music of my bands I have to rely on alsamixer
>>>> because xfce4-mixer is not good enough. I wish I had more time, then
>>>> I'd do the job. Actually, I already started working on it about a month
>>>> ago:
>>>>
>>>>   http://lunar-linux.org/~jannis/screenshots/xfce/xfce4-mixer-20071021.png
>>> Jep, a rewrite would be nice. Something based on GStreamer.
>> This might be a stupid question, but what does gstreamer also handle
>> mixer controls? I thought it was just for sound processing.
> 
> There's a GstMixer interface for software/hardware mixer controls. This
> way we could get rid of the OS specific code, and Xfce would work
> out-of-the-box on every system supported by GStreamer.

Gstreamer is a little huge to pull in just for a mixer...

	-brian