Blueprint changed by Mélodie: Whiteboard changed: Option #1: amixer; needed to open a terminal, not suitable for a newbie / lazzy Option #2: pavucontrol (depending on libpulse libraries); can put one-click handy icon on panel I support pavucontrol, and I think it needs the whole pulse-audio kit, but if that is not an option, you need to find something else /nio Pavucontrol does require the pulse-audio kit, but I believe it is quite worth it (unless there is a performance hit I don't know of). A mucher better volume manager then any others. --Baron [amjjawad] +1 and, this must be fixed: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/832939/volumecontrol.ogv [Srikanth - India] In simple words, every user would like to see easy to use VOlume controller as in Windows(or ubuntu)...with Sliders....To be honest, alsa mixer is not so user friendly :(... [vanyok] I support this initiative. Current sound mixer is too simple and lacks of functionality, and alsa mixer is too difficult for newbies to use. [Baron]@Amjjawad, for the default volume applet, you have to have pavucontrol install for it to work (as far as I know). As for indicator- volume, I don't think that is fixable really. It direcly calls gnome- volume-manager. The only thing that could be done is ln -s pavucontrol gnome-volume-manager, ect. [rafaellaguna] If you have the opportunity to see the Mate's mixer, it's great. it's a different version of alsa - mixer very simple. We could fork it ;) [Mélodie] Hi, I agree about alsamixer not easy to use for newcomers. But while trying other mixers in Lubuntu I could not find how to change alsamixer for another mixer, so I I purely removed the volume control plugin from the panel and replaced it with volumeicon-alsa which I configured to be started with the session and first configured it to use alsamixergui: it's a very light alternative to alsamixer, and if you still don't find it having a look which is consistent enough, gnome-alsamixer is what I currently use, which I would suggest. However the cons is it is much bigger on the disk space compared to alsamixergui because of the depends: 8687 additional kilobytes are installed. (alsamixergui: 115 kb) Here are two pics to get the idea: http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Lubuntu/ScreenShots/volume-control_alsamixer-gui.png http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Lubuntu/ScreenShots/volume-control_gnome- alsamixer.png alsamixer-gui is what I installed to my child's notebook where I seek lightness and ease at same time. I would not vote for pavu control which I found very difficult to handle when I need to switch from loudspeakers to headset and vice versa, I always had a hard time having the sound work again in the output. (When trying to use it with pulse-audio). [joern-schoenyan] Volti is really nice and quite light. https://code.google.com/p/volti/ But: it is GTK, and we should think about the future with Qt. Not easy! [Mélodie] Volti has several python packages as depends: **** Dependencies pygtk 2.16.0 or later pyalsaaudio 0.6 or later dbus-python 0.80.0 or later python-xlib 0.15rc1 or later (optional, used for keys events as an alternative to hal) **** and volumeicon-alsa has depends which are already in the distro, if I get it well from that list: http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/volumeicon-alsa [Baron] I have tried volumeicon-alsa and Volti. Volti doesn't detect my other sounds cards, and only works with the default soundcard, so useless to me (much like the default applet/mixer). Volumeicon-alsa works nice however. Not as nice as indicator-volume, but nice. Still need pavucontrol just like indicator-volume though. + + [Mélodie] it does not need "specifically" pavucontrol: the setup is done in the preferences to replace the default alsamixer with any mixer, such as "pavucontrol", or "alsamixer-gui", or "gnome-mixer", as per the pics I already pointed to: + http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Lubuntu/ScreenShots/volume-control_alsamixer-gui.png + + http://meets.free.fr/Downloads/Lubuntu/ScreenShots/volume-control_gnome- + alsamixer.png + + If pulseaudio is not installed, not to be used, then anything else than + pavucontrol can be used.
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