[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#785846: Bug#785846: xfce4-mixer: Please update to GStreamer 1.x

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On mer., 2015-05-20 at 17:30 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> On Mi, 2015-05-20 at 16:22 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> I think the API that PulseAudio provides for mixer settings is much
> saner, and also abstracting whatever sound system is actually running
> beneath it.

There's already a pulseaudio plugin (not yet in Debian, but that could
happen soon). But I personnaly dislike pulseaudio (and its need for a
daemon) and won't force it to Debian Xfce users. 

> > Joke aside, porting won't be possible, and it's not sure what can be
> > done besides that, so the only solution might be to remove the package.
> 
> Alternatively you could use native mixer APIs instead, like whatever
> libasound2, libpulse and maybe OSS provide. That worked fine for GNOME
> until they just dropped support for everything except PulseAudio.

Yeah, unfortunately someone has to do the work upstream, and not much
people have expressed interest in that.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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