Ping. Any chance to get this merged?
On 12/25/17 16:14, Lari Rasku wrote:
> On MATE, the system and MATE mixers are distinct, and it's easy
> to get them out of sync: the volume control applet's slider
> controls only the MATE mixer, mixerctl controls only the system
> mixer, and the volume up/down keys control both (thanks to
> handlers in mate-settings-daemon). This gets confusing very
> fast, as the volume slider naturally only reflects the state of
> the MATE mixer, but audio playback volume is also affected by
> the (invisible without mixerctl) system mixer.
>
> The distinct mixers are due to libmatemixer using pulseaudio as
> its backend, which in turn uses sndio(7), which doesn't touch
> mixer(4). This patch makes libmatemixer use OSS as its backend
> instead, which does use mixer(4).
>
> This probably costs some pulseaudio-specific functionality, but
> I don't know enough about it to tell what. Anyone know better?
> Is it worth keeping the current confusing mixer behavior?
>
> I expect a similar problem affects other desktop environments
> using pulseaudio as their audio backend. A more comprehensive
> fix would thus be to change pulseaudio to use mixer(4) (directly
> or indirectly) to control the volume, but I don't know how this
> might best be done.
>
> diff --git Makefile Makefile
> index f24450972..d4a4344c4 100644
> --- Makefile
> +++ Makefile
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
> COMMENT= mixer library for MATE desktop
>
> MATE_PROJECT= libmatemixer
> -REVISION= 2
> +REVISION= 3
>
> SHARED_LIBS += matemixer 0.0 # 0.0
>
> @@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ CATEGORIES= audio
> # LGPLv2
> PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM= Yes
>
> -WANTLIB += ICE SM X11 X11-xcb Xext Xi Xtst m pthread xcb pulse
> -WANTLIB += FLAC dbus-1 execinfo ffi glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0
> -WANTLIB += gobject-2.0 iconv intl ogg pcre pulse-mainloop-glib
> -WANTLIB += sndfile vorbis vorbisenc
> +WANTLIB += ICE SM X11 X11-xcb Xext Xi Xtst m pthread xcb ossaudio
> +WANTLIB += ffi glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gobject-2.0 iconv intl pcre
>
> MODULES= x11/gnome
>
> -LIB_DEPENDS= audio/pulseaudio
> +LIB_DEPENDS= devel/glib2
>
> CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu
>
> +CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-pulseaudio --enable-oss
> +
> .include <bsd.port.mk>
> diff --git pkg/PLIST pkg/PLIST
> index ec80aa410..18a4fc892 100644
> --- pkg/PLIST
> +++ pkg/PLIST
> @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ lib/libmatemixer.la
> @comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.a
> @comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.la
> lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.so
> -@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.a
> -@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.la
> -lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.so
> +@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.a
> +@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.la
> +lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.so
> lib/pkgconfig/libmatemixer.pc
> share/gtk-doc/html/libmatemixer/
> share/gtk-doc/html/libmatemixer/MateMixerAppInfo.html
>
