need testing - xfce 4.4.2 installer package

[Jannis Pohlmann]

Am Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:46:12 +0100
schrieb Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>:

> 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.
> > 
> > In that case, might want to look into PulseAudio.  Maybe not
> > initially, but it might be nice to support that as a volume control
> > 'backend'.
> 
> I'm not sure, but IIRC GStreamer should already support that.
> Otherwise, it should probably be added to GStreamer, so all
> applications will benefit.

Yeah, There's a package called gst-pulse for pulseaudio support
GStreamer.

  - Jannis
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