The best feature about the new mixer is that it is invisible for bottom panel users: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568335
21 January 2009 at 06:51
Anonymous said...
Yes, please tell us that it is an applet and not a systray icon.
21 January 2009 at 08:30
Anonymous said...
Thanks for this post. I have two more questions.
The screenshots in the Phoronix article showed that in the "Applications" tab, there was a single volume slider per application. There is no way to balance the volume between left and right channel. In pavucontrol under F10, there are two volume sliders (left and right channel) per application. I really hope that the new volume control will still feature the two channels.
Another thing: IIRC, Lennhart Poettering mentioned that with pulseaudio, one day it would be possible to automatically balance the audio streams on a per-application basis, such that sound coming from application windows placed on the left of the screen would be directed to the left audio channel, and sound coming from application windows placed on the right of the screen would be directed to the right audio channel. Will this feature be offered by the new volume control?
In any case, I guess everyone would enjoy seeing more screenshots of the new volume control!
21 January 2009 at 10:04
Anonymous said...
Sorry, in my previous post I did not include the first question! Here you go:
I really hope that the new volume control will still feature the two channels. Is this the case?
Perfect! What a relief! I just hope that Ubuntu will leave behind the old mixer applet soon. It's just unluckily that the old applet went trough that misfortunate "redesign" and then got abandoned :-(
Anyway, the applet from gnome-music has one trivial issue, the slide is misplaced a little, would be much nicer if the slide was horizontally centered to the icon in notification area. I tried to put together the patch but, well, I am not a GObject programmer ;-)
[Image] Ubuntu's mixer applet is a different UI on the old mixer applet in gnome-applets, and not the PulseAudio-powered volume applet now in gnome-media.
In addition to the article being outdated (the treeview with the one-by-one sound event customisation is already gone), it also invents new features such as «the ability to adjust the alert volume on a per-alert basis». God knows where they got that from.
"NB: It doesn't actually look like that"
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Bastien, the new volume applet doesn't miss the Plus and Minus buttons ?
I don't have pulseaudio working on my jhbuild that's why i didn't tried yet.
21 January 2009 at 01:43
So it's an applet and not a systray icon? Yay!
21 January 2009 at 02:07
Phew.. I was starting to get worried there for a moment.
And as said before: Applet or notification tray icon?
21 January 2009 at 03:40
My main beef is that the mixer is gone. I now have to use the ncurses alsamixer. Why is the mixer gone?
Or is that an Ubuntu thing too?
21 January 2009 at 04:51
No, Ubuntu didn't do anything special. This is the whole of code changes in the diff:
+--- gnome-media-2.25.1/grecord/src/gsr-window.c 2008-12-16 21:28:57.000000000 +0100
++++ gnome-media-2.25.1.new/grecord/src/gsr-window.c 2009-01-05 16:02:14.000000000 +0100
+@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
+ #include gst/gst.h
+ #include gst/interfaces/mixer.h
+
++#include launchpad-integration.h
++
+ #include profiles/gnome-media-profiles.h
+
+ #include "gsr-window.h"
+@@ -2273,6 +2275,10 @@
+ }
+ g_free (path);
+
++
++ launchpad_integration_add_ui (priv->ui_manager,
++ "/MenuBar/HelpMenu/LaunchpadItems");
++
+ /* show tooltips in the statusbar */
+ g_signal_connect (priv->ui_manager, "connect_proxy",
+ G_CALLBACK (connect_proxy_cb), window);
Other than that, its stock 2.25.5
21 January 2009 at 05:22
The best feature about the new mixer is that it is invisible for bottom panel users: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568335
21 January 2009 at 06:51
Yes, please tell us that it is an applet and not a systray icon.
21 January 2009 at 08:30
Thanks for this post. I have two more questions.
The screenshots in the Phoronix article showed that in the "Applications" tab, there was a single volume slider per application. There is no way to balance the volume between left and right channel. In pavucontrol under F10, there are two volume sliders (left and right channel) per application. I really hope that the new volume control will still feature the two channels.
Another thing: IIRC, Lennhart Poettering mentioned that with pulseaudio, one day it would be possible to automatically balance the audio streams on a per-application basis, such that sound coming from application windows placed on the left of the screen would be directed to the left audio channel, and sound coming from application windows placed on the right of the screen would be directed to the right audio channel. Will this feature be offered by the new volume control?
In any case, I guess everyone would enjoy seeing more screenshots of the new volume control!
21 January 2009 at 10:04
Sorry, in my previous post I did not include the first question! Here you go:
I really hope that the new volume control will still feature the two channels. Is this the case?
21 January 2009 at 10:07
@Russ: the applet was not in gnome-media, but in gnome-applets (or whatever the name for it).
21 January 2009 at 19:03
Perfect! What a relief! I just hope that Ubuntu will leave behind the old mixer applet soon. It's just unluckily that the old applet went trough that misfortunate "redesign" and then got abandoned :-(
Anyway, the applet from gnome-music has one trivial issue, the slide is misplaced a little, would be much nicer if the slide was horizontally centered to the icon in notification area. I tried to put together the patch but, well, I am not a GObject programmer ;-)
27 April 2009 at 13:26