Re: The future of the gstreamer volume-control applet.

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 10:45 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 15:53 +1300, Callum McKenzie wrote:
> > Three weeks ago I removed the gstreamer-based volume-control applet from
> > the gnome-applets package at the request of the gnome-media crew. I then
> > sat on the sidelines to see how the drama would play out. Now that the
> > dust seems to have settled, I have decided to accommodate people
> > (especially distro-people) who still don't Believe in pulseaudio. I have
> > reinstated the applet, but it must be explicitly enabled.
> > 
> > The argument for configure is --enable-mixer-applet. There are two
> > gotchas: the support for gstreamer 0.8 is gone, only gstreamer 0.10 is
> > supported (since I had to rewrite the autoconf stuff anyway, this was a
> > good time to do it). I have also set jhbuild to enable the mixer, so
> > bleeding edge people will get both forms of volume control.
> 
> Do we still get a null-applet for the mixer applet when it's disabled?

The null_applet should go away on your next gnome-panel run. If it
doesn't, that's a bug.

The idea behind the null_applet is that it vampires the OAFIID of the
applet it's removing. Pops up a message saying that applet has gone away
and then removes the entry from GConf. Because the entry has been
removed, next time you start the panel null_applet shouldn't start.

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