Chris: I don't see what's so awful about it... Feel free to file bugs with your suggestions
Hans: it will detect HDMI automatically if ALSA and PA show it. Does it show up as a profile in pavucontrol? If so, file a bug against gnome-media, if not, file a bug against your distribution's ALSA package.
21 May 2009 at 15:59
Anonymous said...
Chris: read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572217 for a good overview of the trickiness inherent here. Sound is complex, it's hard to make a dialog that's both simple *and* useful...
There's no rear balance per se. Changing Balance and Fade makes changing to all the speakers (except the subwoofer), you can see the interaction by launching pavucontrol for example.
lovely piece of work, would it be included with gnome-media?
22 May 2009 at 08:25
Anonymous said...
mojo: yes, this PA-based gnome-volume-control is now the default in upstream gnome-media. however, Ubuntu chose to ship the old one by default in 9.04.
Fedora 11 ships the new one by default and the old one stuck down in the menus for people who need functionality the new one doesn't yet provide.
Mandriva ships only the new one in 2009 Spring, I believe.
The versions in current stable distros will not include this new goodness, it's in the 2.27 branch which will go stable with the 2.28 release. It may well get shipped as updates for Fedora 11, though, I'm guessing (Bastien?)
Not sure about other distros.
22 May 2009 at 21:32
As promised, gnome-volume-control in master now has fade and subwoofer support, as well as instant-apply for the default output selection. We just need to be able to set it up for 5.1 now...
"I really haz 5.1"
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Just wanted to say that you (and everyone that also is involved with this) rocks!
Keep it up!
21 May 2009 at 14:25
Good work, but this is still an awful, awful dialog :(
21 May 2009 at 15:11
Would be cool if it could detect my HDMI automatically as well. Still rocks though ^^.
21 May 2009 at 15:37
Chris: I don't see what's so awful about it... Feel free to file bugs with your suggestions
Hans: it will detect HDMI automatically if ALSA and PA show it. Does it show up as a profile in pavucontrol? If so, file a bug against gnome-media, if not, file a bug against your distribution's ALSA package.
21 May 2009 at 15:59
Chris: read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572217 for a good overview of the trickiness inherent here. Sound is complex, it's hard to make a dialog that's both simple *and* useful...
21 May 2009 at 18:30
nice!
21 May 2009 at 19:00
how to access to this code?
I've tried git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-volume-manager
but install the 2.24.1 version...
21 May 2009 at 20:26
Fabio, gnome-volume-manager, as its README would tell you, handles "disk volumes", not sound volume.
Check gnome-media instead. The sources are in the gnome-volume-control sub-directory.
21 May 2009 at 21:21
What about rear balance?
21 May 2009 at 22:50
There's no rear balance per se. Changing Balance and Fade makes changing to all the speakers (except the subwoofer), you can see the interaction by launching pavucontrol for example.
21 May 2009 at 23:27
yeah i discover it by myself a few minutes after (tnx to readme hehe)
however, i get this:
[fabio@abuarch src]$ ./gnome-volume-control-applet
** (gnome-volume-control-applet:13375): WARNING **: Connection failed
21 May 2009 at 23:46
Fabio: This isn't a bugzilla though. And you seem to not be running PulseAudio...
22 May 2009 at 00:23
lovely piece of work, would it be included with gnome-media?
22 May 2009 at 08:25
mojo: yes, this PA-based gnome-volume-control is now the default in upstream gnome-media. however, Ubuntu chose to ship the old one by default in 9.04.
Fedora 11 ships the new one by default and the old one stuck down in the menus for people who need functionality the new one doesn't yet provide.
Mandriva ships only the new one in 2009 Spring, I believe.
The versions in current stable distros will not include this new goodness, it's in the 2.27 branch which will go stable with the 2.28 release. It may well get shipped as updates for Fedora 11, though, I'm guessing (Bastien?)
Not sure about other distros.
22 May 2009 at 21:32