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

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au> wrote:
> 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.

This didn't work right for the mixer applet when it was first
nullappletized. I've put a patch for that into bugzilla a while ago.