On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 5:51 PM Mukundan Ragavan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 1/7/21 1:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 10:11:29AM +0000, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote: > >>> I have retired everything discussed here. > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Earlier I asked whether the Xfce changes relating to pipewire could > >> trickle down to f33. I'm still planning to give rawhide with Xfce 4.16 > >> and pipewire a try with a live image, but what I meant with f33 is > >> that currently I can't swap pulseaudio with pipewire-pulseaudio > >> because xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin currently has an explicit dependency > >> on the former. > >> > >> It looks like both pulseaudio and pipewire-pulseaudio packages provide > >> pulseaudio-daemon, and maybe xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin could depend on > >> that to work with both implementations. And I was hoping this specific > >> change could trickle down to f33 so I could test pipewire on my > >> current f33/Xfce 4.14 system. That's my last show stopper right now. > >> The other packages that would be erased if I swapped both > >> implementations today can go away without bothering me too much. > >> > >> Sorry if that was confusing, and thanks again for maintaining Xfce in > >> Fedora. > > > > Yeah, I totally think it makes sense to change xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin > > to work with either and move it's dep to 'pulseaudio-daemon' from > > 'pulseaudio'. > > > > kevin > > > > > > There is a problem in doing this. If we move to pulseaudio-daemon, we > lose our current volume mixer - pavucontrol (which, I am sure requires > pulseaudio and is not generic). Other DEs, as far as I know (i.e. GNOME, > MATE, and Cinnamon), have their own mixers. pulseaudio-plugin relies on > an external mixer. > > I would prefer not to move to without a suitable replacement for > pavucontrol - if we can avoid it. Does pipewire provide a suitable > replacement for pavucontrol? > > Does this make sense? >
pavucontrol works fine with PipeWire. The libpulse library interacts with the PipeWire-PulseAudio daemon just fine, and everything basically works. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ xfce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
