Downgrading gnome-volume-control and mixer_applet to be usable

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Apr 30 18:08:15 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 10:04 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:

> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498136
> 
>    I just looked over you package and gave it some thought. This package 
> only solves one of my two problems and creates another. It solves the 
> lack of the mixer application, but doesn't solve the lack of the good 
> mixer applet. It also creates the new problem of that if you restore the 
> mixer applet it will run the wrong mixer application, since your mixer 
> is renamed.
> 
>    The best solution would probably to be a second package with the 
> mixer applet, but with a patch to use the new name of the mixer 
> application. Then both the old and new could co-exist, I think.

Using the old mixer applet by default was rejected by FESco. However,
now I think about it, since it's part of a separate package, we could
theoretically resurrect it as a not-installed-by-default option. I'm not
inclined to spend a lot of time on this, though, since as far as I'm
concerned the biggest problem is 'provide some kind of graphical app to
let people tweak the raw alsa mixer elements and switch inputs'. I am
not as bothered about having the old applet available too, that's less
of an issue for me.
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