On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 02:44 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > The new gnome-volume-control is so cut-down it's not useful to me. In > > the quest to be more Mac-like in removing mixer controls (and not even > > having any obvious "advanced" mode), I now have a choice of no audio or > > having full volume LFE output *and* whatever mixer level I have set for > > the master output. alsamixer works fine, but then I can't use the volume > > sliders on my desktop and it gets rather awkward. > Sadly, they consider this bug as an enhancement. I have had friends > who had the same hardware with me but they were using another OS. I > remember them being jealous because I had so much more control over > same sound card. It made me proud at the time. I fear that this > disease of oversimplifying will make us forget why we are using Linux. All paranoia and ranting aside, there is some truth to this. There is a definite trend in the Linux community to want to cater to the lowest common denominator by being more Mac/Windows-esque. I put up with it because I can usually ignore it (I refuse on principal to use a GUI to copy a file, for example, but that's just me being weird), but I don't see the harm in hiding the advanced stuff under a checkbox - the advanced mixer stuff is still there underneath after all. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
