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walt wrote: |
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> On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: |
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> > Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks |
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> > gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't |
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> > understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong. |
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> I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the |
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> pulseaudio documentation. |
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> It seems that pulseaudio has its own mixer control (not |
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> included in gentoo's pulseaudio package) so maybe it does |
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> make sense to remove that function from gnome's volume |
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> control applet. |
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> However, the most important thing I learned is that I have |
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> no use whatever for pulseaudio -- and I doubt that many |
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> other people do, either. |
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> It seems to be a massively complex solution hunting for a |
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> problem. How many of us want/need to play two or more |
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> soundtracks at the same time? |
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> If I'm wrong about this, please correct me. I'd like to |
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> know why all those devs spent so much energy building it. |
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> Thanks. |
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It coming from upstream (red hat-fedora) and Lennart Poettering |
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You can read some of the reasoning here; |
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http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio |
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The bottom line is we will need to get use to it at some point not sure |
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when that will be. I did come up with a little guide; |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789181.html |
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I have been using it for a while and for the most part it has been fine. |
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-david |
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