xfce4-mixer development

[Ali Abdallah]

The problem of xfce nowadays is that it lacks devs and it lacks support. 
Even active contributors have no time to push things forward. As a 
result, one of the most popular *nix desktop currently has no mixer 
application for handling basic sound operations, not to speak about more 
adv options like handling multiple audio sink (bluetooth spk, etc...). I 
was planning to give a hand on this, because for me this is a major 
weakness, but as Steve I have almost 0 free time. On the other hand, if 
you look elsewhere, you find more stuffed desktop projects doing nothing 
but screwing things up...

Regards,
Ali

On 07/15/2016 09:11 AM, 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.
>
> 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:
>
>
>
>
>     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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