Re: (Partial) GNOME 3 status update

[Diego Escalante Urrelo <diegoe gnome org>]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 20:02 +0200, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 19:49 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> 
> > Why don't we remove gst-mixer, vu-meter, gnome-cd and cddb-slave2
> > completely from gnome media 2.27. People that want to keep on building
> > them can use the 2.26 branch
> 
> Not sure if somebody still uses gst-mixer (at least Fedora is using
> gnome-volume-control instead of it) but the README here [1] says at
> least the other three applications are disabled from the default build
> anyway, and I agree with you it's not worth the effort to patch them to
> use up-to-date platform technologies.
> 

I use it because of the simplest ever use case not yet covered by PA:
- PCM volume at 100% -> jerky sound

PA assumes that I have PCM at 100% and I only need to adjust Master,
this is broken at least in my card (intel8x0) because if I were to put
PCM at 100% I would get quite jerky sound (imagine a batteries fm
radio). Right now PA only allows me to adjust Master, which is quite
useless for me.

So what I do is having Master at 100% and PCM around 70%, if laptop
speaker volume (hw control) is not strong enough I go to gst-mixer and
adjust PCM up a little bit, giving away quality for some loudness.

Not having gst-mixer would mean either having PCM at 100% all the time
and getting jerky sound or having to go console or use some ugly thing
like gnome-alsamixer. If it's not hurting anyone, please keep gst-mixer
in the package.