On 7/20/26 12:38, vermaden wrote:
I will not even start about PITA syntax of mixer(1) which went into
this:
% mixer -f ${DEV} vol.volume=+0.05
Just use gtk-mixer, avail in ports.
In recent years, I haven't noticed any bugs
in the operation of the OSS.
I do it by scripts anyway ... but I needed to rewrite all my scripts because of
these changes ... and this change in syntax was bad from at least three
perspectives:
1. It happened in 'point' release (like from .2 to .3) - not in new major
release - breaking stuff for EVERYONE.
2. It happened without any reason - the tool could do the same with old syntax
underneath - the new syntax does not introduce anything new - it just has
different syntax.
3. As FreeBSD (at least up to some time ago) cherished the POLA principle WHY
the old syntax could not been also kept and accepted?
... and yes - I also think that 'gtk-mixer' works well - so is 'dsbmixer' tool.
It offered something new to me: Confusion. In the past, I'd need to
fiddle with the mixer once a year and it was more or less obvious how it
worked. The last time, I just gave up.
-Matthew
