On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthias Clasen wrote: >> Kevin, I know that you are proud of kde, and thats fine, but its really >> getting tiring to see you jump in any thread where a Gnome application >> is discussed, and advertise the kde equivalent. > > Well, he was asking for a graphical alternative to alsamixer, which is what > KMix is. Now there may be other alternatives from XFCE etc., but I'm afraid > I'm not familiar with those. As for GNOME: > >> And don't talk about things if you have no idea whats going on. "They" >> don't want you to use pavucontrol instead. >> >> The plans for volume control in F11 have been laid out here: >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControl > > Indeed I wasn't aware of this. Mea culpa, and thanks for pointing it out to > me. > > However, quoting from that feature page, this: >> Graphical mixers (such as the volume applet, the mixer, and the multimedia >> keys handler) should be restricted to modifying PulseAudio's default >> output's mixer (which could be aggregated outputs). > sounds like I wasn't too far off. > > Now maybe that page is incorrect, so I'll ask: What options are there for > people who want to tweak their hardware mixer settings from GNOME for > whatever reason? Will this be possible from the volume applet/icon? From > the gnome-control-center? Or only from non-GNOME apps (e.g. alsamixer, KMix > etc.)? you shouldn't have to. Pulseaudio abstract the "tons of different mixers provided by alsa" to something clear to the user. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
