Downgrading gnome-volume-control and mixer_applet to be usable

[Nathan Grennan]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:30 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:
>> I have installed Fedora 11 preview in VMware, and found that 
>> PulseAudio has become more entrenched in Gnome. :( The first symptom of 
>> it was the login sound kept repeating till I killed PulseAudio. I found 
>> that panel applet was useless. So I hunted for a way to revert to the 
>> previous style.
>>
>>    First I found I could just downgrade to the older version of 
>> gnome-media, but I couldn't do the same with gnome-applets. I tried 
>> recompiling the old gnome-applets against the newer Gnome, but that 
>> didn't work. Then I found that the newer version of both packages have 
>> configure options to revert to the previous style. So I downloaded the 
>> src.rpms and recompiled both. It works!
>>
>>    I am glad I found these configure options. For a minute I was 
>> considering trying to move to XFCE again.
> 
> You obviously missed the last week of fedora-devel-list. :)
> 
> 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.