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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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...<br>
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      Regards,<br>
      Ali<br>
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      On 07/15/2016 09:11 AM, Steve Dodier-Lazaro wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi,
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          <div>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. </div>
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          <div>Now, the same thing formulated in PR-speak:</div>
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          <div>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.<br>
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            Cheers,</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 14 July 2016 at 00:29, Mukundan
          Ragavan <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:nonamedotc@gmail.com" target="_blank">nonamedotc@gmail.com</a>></span>
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                Hi folks,<br>
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                I am one of the co-maintainers of several Xfce packages
                in Fedora and<br>
                would like to get an update about xfce4-mixer.<br>
                <br>
                Based on the conversation at [1], I understood that
                xfce4-mixer is going<br>
                to be obsoleted in favor of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. One
                of the emails<br>
                in that thread mentioned Slackware, which, with the
                release of v14.2<br>
                also carries pulseaudio (at least officially).<br>
                <br>
                Is this - pulseaudio-plugin obsoleting mixer - still the
                case?<br>
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                Many thanks,<br>
                Mukundan.<br>
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                [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2015-June/031290.html"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2015-June/031290.html</a><br>
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            <div>Steve Dodier-Lazaro<br>
              PhD Student<br>
              University College London<br>
              Free Software Developer<br>
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