FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 01:25:29AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:13:20PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> How many volume control applications do you want us to ship with? The  
> >> fact that mistakes have been made in the past is not an argument for  
> >> further mistakes being made in the future.
> >
> > To ask the dumb question... right now pavucontrol is the only way  
> > (AFAIK) right now to change relative volume of individual apps, or  
> > choose output device per-app. Without pavucontrol, how is this supposed  
> > to be accomplished?
> 
> Per-stream volume control seems to be present in g-v-c. I'm afraid I've 
> got no idea about per-stream output control - I only have one output 
> device available here.
> 
> > (Or are both of these being labeled "exotic" use cases that shan't be  
> > supported OOTB?)
> 
> I don't know. I'd imagine that the first certainly isn't (given that it 
> seems to be supported), but you'd need to ask someone else about the 
> second.

It would be a shame if the second was considered exotic, since it's
supposed to be a feature of PulseAudio.  I used it to create this:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_make_a_podcast

Of course, if I understand correctly, you're not saying pavucontrol
would disappear, just that the design considerations under discussion
might call for it to not be installed by default.  Right?

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