xfce4-mixer development

[Tim Tassonis]

Hi Steve

On 07/15/16 09:11, Steve Dodier-Lazaro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before starting this I should say I have *no* time in the next year, and
> several more urgent work packages for Xfce. But, I do intend some day to
> write an update to the mixer and volume daemon to use ALSA directly
> without GStreamer. I cannot use PulseAudio so I really need it, but like
> I said, no time.


I would very much appreciate this, as I also don't use pulseaudio and I 
am perfectly fine with alsa for general sound and jack for professional 
sound. Haven't come across a situation where the bloated pulseaudio is 
of any particular use.

As xfce4-mixer does not work anymore, I have recently switched to 
gtk-alsamixer. I compiles with tons of errors and I had to patch it to 
get a reasonable initial window size, but apart from that, it just seems 
to work fine. I also added a desktop file and an icon. It currently 
resides at:

https://github.com/stop-n-drink/gtk-alsamixer


The current maintainer of gtk-alsamixer does not seem to be very 
responsive, but I would be very willing to port gtk-alsamixer to a 
xfce4-alsamixer.

If anyone is interested in that, I will start work on this. I would be 
very glad to some pointers how to convert a plain gtk application to use 
the xfce stuff.


Kind regards
Tim


>
> Now, the same thing formulated in PR-speak:
>
> The official sound packages are the PulseAudio ones. The GStreamer 0.1
> packages can be provided as a matter of convenience but rely on obsolete
> dependencies. In the future, a replacement may become available for
> those who prefer to use ALSA, which will not be recommended to be used
> as default; though distributors have the last say on this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 14 July 2016 at 00:29, Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc at gmail.com
> <mailto:nonamedotc at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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>
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     I am one of the co-maintainers of several Xfce packages in Fedora and
>     would like to get an update about xfce4-mixer.
>
>     Based on the conversation at [1], I understood that xfce4-mixer is going
>     to be obsoleted in favor of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. One of the emails
>     in that thread mentioned Slackware, which, with the release of v14.2
>     also carries pulseaudio (at least officially).
>
>     Is this - pulseaudio-plugin obsoleting mixer - still the case?
>
>     Many thanks,
>     Mukundan.
>
>
>     [1] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2015-June/031290.html
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