need testing - xfce 4.4.2 installer package

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Dec 4 23:34:34 CET 2007


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>>   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...

Not really. The gnome mixer applet's memory usage is near to that of the
xfce4-mixer plugin, and that also includes the CORBA/Gnome overhead.

> 	-brian

Benedikt



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