how to handle now sound control needs?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:32:22PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 13:29 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > The world isn't perfect.  You *will* have to at some point adjust a 
> > hardware mixer.  Will this feature make any progress on these bugs?
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&classification=Fedora&product=Fedora&component=alsa-lib&component=alsa-utils&component=alsamixergui&component=gnome-applets&component=gnome-media&component=pavucontrol&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
> > 
> > It's great to have people working to make audio better on the desktop, 
> > but we need more help fixing the underlying issues with the ALSA 
> > kernel drivers and library.
> 
> Its true. A lot of the issues with sound are driver and alsa issues. 
> Lennart has contributed quite a few alsa bug fixes during the
> glitch-free PA rewrite, and continues to work with Takashi and other
> alsa developers. I hope you don't think that we should put all volume
> control UI improvements on hold until the kernel is bugfree...

Of course not, as long as we don't make it difficult for users to work 
around these bugs.  I'd like to see an "advanced mode" or something in 
gnome-volume-control that keeps all the functionality that currently 
exists for controlling individual hardware mixer channels.