Re: how to handle now sound control needs?

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

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.)?

        Kevin Kofler