On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:48 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > please describe in detail what you > > think a user friendly interface would look like. > > There are several issues at different points: > > * alsaconf has done a really great job in the past, but meanwhile I see > the need for a replacement which can handle more than one card, support > USB (and in the future firewire) devices, can read an existing > configuration, set a certain device as the default device and so on. > Based on such a new script, we then could build even GUI configuration > frontends (Qt, Gtk, KDE, you name it)
Much of this is already done - Gnome provides both a GUI and CLI interface to set the default soundcard, System->Preferences->Sound. It's unfortunate that many apps don't have a way to configure the sound device they use. Lee
