On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:19 +0000, carmen wrote: > > if it really is Gnome dependent, I insist in my thesis that > > configuration tools should be distro and desktop independent > > im willing to guess these days more (especially new) users on a % basis have gnome-libs installed than the ncurses that alsaconf uses.. > > maybe alsa could provide some kind of uniform device-selection widget for GTK, so that there isnt a different one with different features in each app..i mean 2/3rs of them still have a txt entry box and expect you to know what hw:0,1,0 is.. something with a 'select for this app' and 'set as default' maybe.. i would say 'like how printing works'. but dont get me started on cups/foomatic/hpiod/samba/lib(gnome/kde)print etc.. > But, that would still be GTK specific - you've just moved the problem to another level. Really, this is such a simple feature, that I don't see the need for a single distro/desktop independent utility, or why apps cannot each provide their own widget to select a sound card. It's just a case of developer laziness... Lee
