gnome-alsamixer not in pre-extras

[Lars]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 19.12.2004, 07:27 +0100 schrieb Lars:
>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 04:00:17 +0100, Lars wrote:
>> > 
>> >> hi
>> >> 
>> >> just want to note that gnome-alsamixer is missing
>> >> in the pre-extras repo.
>> > 
>> > Thanks. It's a known thing. Please see:
>> > 
>> >   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fFC3Status
>> > 
>> > It says:
>> > 
>> >  gnome-alsamixer - Not needed for FC3 cause gnome-volume-control
>> >  offers functionality
> 
> Just FYI, that was my decision. I made the package back in the days of
> FC1. But I saw no reason to support in in FC2 and FC3 since the same
> functionality is provided by the new gnome-mixer. AFAIK part of the new
> gnome-mixer are taken from gnome-alsamixer.
> 
> And I think this decision was/is right. The upstream package was not
> updated since around one year AFAIK.
> 
>> ah, thanks
>> i'm using kde and would love to get it back because it works a *lot*
>> nicer than kde's default kmix applet.
> 
> I know that the current gnome-mixer isn't the best, but did you look at
> it to see if it fits your needs? Anyway I think rebuilding for Fedora-
> Extras FC3 is unnecessary and waste of time. If you love gnome-alsamixer
> so much rebuild the FC1 srpm yourself. That *should* work.

thanks for clearing this up.
guess i will go the srpm way.

best
lars

merry xmass to all the nice fedora people out there!

-- 
No Software Patents! http://nosoftwarepatents.com
Datenschutz - Ihr gutes Recht! http://datenschutz.de
Get Firefox! http://spreadfirefox.com