On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:47 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 20:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit : > > > Oh right, so we have to choose between supporting only PA and screw > > > other users, or not benefit from PA at all. What a choice. > > > > Uh? You can ship both if you wish and pass the decision what to use to > > the user. I mean, that is the usual way Debian solves problems like > > this, isn't it? > > No, that’s not the “usual way”. Having two identical applications in the > menu is not the “usual way”. But as I have already explained, we can > deal with it using a hack, so please forget about that. Just go on > shipping the two mixers, and let’s stop this pointless discussion. > well, I guess we can easily have a gnome-volume-control script that starts the PA one or the GST one depending on user's choice, right? No need for 2 entries in the menu
> > > > How about the applet then? Is there a plan to bring back a gst-based > > > one? > > > > Dunno. If you insist it could probably be kept around, but that's not > > up to me to decide. > > If the two applets don’t share the basic UI (one panel applet and one > notification icon), that’s a bigger problem. I guess we could always > ship the GStreamer one and start the PA one only if PA is running, but > that’s not very consistent. > you're right here, we need some sort of run-time activation of one applet or the other. I guess gnome-settings-daemon's sound module could add the applet or the notification icon depending on PA/not PA. -- Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list