Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 19.12.2004, 07:27 +0100 schrieb Lars: >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:00:17 +0100, Lars wrote: >> > >> >> hi >> >> >> >> just want to note that gnome-alsamixer is missing >> >> in the pre-extras repo. >> > >> > Thanks. It's a known thing. Please see: >> > >> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fFC3Status >> > >> > It says: >> > >> > gnome-alsamixer - Not needed for FC3 cause gnome-volume-control >> > offers functionality > > Just FYI, that was my decision. I made the package back in the days of > FC1. But I saw no reason to support in in FC2 and FC3 since the same > functionality is provided by the new gnome-mixer. AFAIK part of the new > gnome-mixer are taken from gnome-alsamixer. > > And I think this decision was/is right. The upstream package was not > updated since around one year AFAIK. > >> ah, thanks >> i'm using kde and would love to get it back because it works a *lot* >> nicer than kde's default kmix applet. > > I know that the current gnome-mixer isn't the best, but did you look at > it to see if it fits your needs? Anyway I think rebuilding for Fedora- > Extras FC3 is unnecessary and waste of time. If you love gnome-alsamixer > so much rebuild the FC1 srpm yourself. That *should* work. thanks for clearing this up. guess i will go the srpm way. best lars merry xmass to all the nice fedora people out there! -- No Software Patents! http://nosoftwarepatents.com Datenschutz - Ihr gutes Recht! http://datenschutz.de Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com