Request to include xfce4-alsamixer to xfce

[Ambrose LI]

Le ven. 14 juin 2024, à 03 h 59, Silvio Knizek <killermoehre at gmx.net> a écrit :
> wouldn't a pipewire control panel be more useful for a broader spectrum
> of users? Especially going forward with the wayland compatibility with
> Xfce > 4.20.

I personally don’t use ALSA directly (unless we’re talking about
MIDI), but my thought is that because of the way audio on Linux is
intentionally segmented, this is always going to be a niche.

To elaborate, on Linux audio is split into creator-oritiented and
consumer-oriented. PulseAudio is consumer-oriented, and I believe
(sorry if I’m wrong) PipeWire also is. So all the users who don’t use
PulseAudio will be musicians and similar.

I don’t know how many musicians use raw ALSA. I’d imagine most would
use JACK (except in special cases like MIDI), but I think the number
of users who do not use PulseAudio/PipeWire is underestimated if
you’re coming from the consumer-oriented segment.

(I also have a piece of equipment that can’t be handled by PulseAudio.
But as I mentioned, I’m not using raw ALSA myself; I let JACK handle
it.)
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