Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

[Enver ALTIN <ealtin gmail com>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:33, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>wrote:

> On Mon, 12.01.09 16:55, Josselin Mouette (joss debian org) wrote:
>
> > Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 15:43 +0100, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> > > I don't think the advent of sound cards that do this kind of switching
> > > in software should hold as back and require us to export every single
> > > crazy volume control to the user.
> >
> > Still, this is not a reason to break things on systems which, for one
> > reason or another, can't decently work with PA. I'd prefer to see a
> > transition phase during which there is support for both setups (native
> > PA or whatever GStreamer exports); the old interface could be removed
> > once PA supports a reasonably complete range of setups.
>
> Isn't the fact that we plan to include both volume controls in GNOME
> transition phase enough? Those distros who like PA adopt the new one,
> the ones who don't continue to use the old one. Distros who are unable
> to decide have to ship both, but hey that's what you get when you
> cannot decide.
>
> Given that some people don't want to adopt PA anytime soon (such as
> the Solaris folks) I don't think we will be able to remove the old Gst
> mixer any time soon either.