On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 14:33 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 19 janvier 2009 à 11:21 +0100, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : > > you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you > > see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback, > > so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the > > applet, let's use that, but can't think of a better (and quicker) way > > right now > > Yes, there’s a quicker way: restore the full GStreamer-based panel > applet. Contrarily to gnome-volume-control, there’s not much gain in > using PA in the applet.
There is. We can detect when applications are recording, providing a quick way to change the recording level. We automatically provide a volume for the default output, which can be switched on-the-fly (you can't do that at all with ALSA). We remove tons of obscure preferences, like which channel the control should change. We remove a lot of maintenance problems where either the applications or GStreamer contains work-arounds for each of the backends' bugs, and move those problems into PulseAudio and (mostly) ALSA. It also means a lot of the code is shared between volume applications (the main volume-control app, the "applet", and the gnome-settings-daemon media keys plugin). We now have a per-app volume which can be advertised outside the application itself (although right now it means that applications need to use playbin2 if they use GStreamer, ALSA applications will just work). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
