Request to include xfce4-alsamixer to xfce

[Tim Tassonis]

On 6/14/24 15:02, Andrzej wrote:
> 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.

I am a moderately skilled C developer, and my commitment is definitely 
there.

I have to agree that I'm not a good GUI developer, I do however think 
that I can do bugfixes.

The program was written by Sergios Anestis Kefalidis, a very skilled 
developer who already has done work on xfce-terminal, upon my request, I 
assume he is not really interested in it anymore.

My argument for still adding it is: To my knowledge, alsa is a very 
stable API, so there should not be much need for many changes to it.

However, it probably has to be ported to gtk4/wayland, something I 
haven't looked into yet.

Bye
Tim



> - 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
>     <https://github.com/SKefalidis/xfce4-alsamixer>
> 
>     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 <https://gitlab.xfce.org/timtas>
> 
>     Bye
>     Tim
> 
> 
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