Request to include xfce4-alsamixer to xfce

[Andrzej]

Hi Tim,

There are two aspects to your request:
- Bringing a piece of software and a maintainer into the Xfce project. The main concern here is your skills and commitment. Talk to the team, maybe engage in smaller tasks etc.
- Suitability of xfce4-alsamixer - definitely. IMHO we should have a mixer that doesn't require a sound server. There was/is xfce4-mixer but I don't know which of these projects is a better starting point. Some time ago we (I, in fact) have moved to pulseaudio but it was a purely pragmatic choice, Gstreamer's mixer API was gone with no alternatives in sight and I wanted an easy fix that would give the most people a working mixer. Definitely not against ALSA or other solutions. 

Thanks, 
Andrzej 


On 12 June 2024 23:58:20 BST, Tim Tassonis <stuff at decentral.ch> wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I don't know if this is the right place for this, but two years ago, Sergios Anestis Kefalidis has written an xfce4 alsamixer gui (based on gtk-alsamixer), to provide a gui for people (like me) that don't use pulseaudio on their desktop, but plain alsa.
>
>I have since used it on my xfce desktops with latest alsa and xfce4 without any problems and wanted to ask if it could be included to the "official" xfce repos.
>
>I can well further maintain it myself, but I thought that there might be other xfce4 users that don't use pulseaudio, and the program is really useful for all those.
>
>The repo currently resides at:
>
>
>https://github.com/SKefalidis/xfce4-alsamixer
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>If it would be included, I would take on maintainership, because I doubt Sergios is all that interested in it, I already have a xfce gitlab account, at:
>
>https://gitlab.xfce.org/timtas
>
>Bye
>Tim
>
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