On 10/25/2009 08:19 AM, walt wrote: > Merging gnome-media with the pulseaudio USE flag breaks > gnome-volume-control most horribly IMO, but OTOH I don't > understand pulseaudio, so maybe I'm wrong.
I found the gnome 2.26 upgrade guide, which points to the pulseaudio documentation. It seems that pulseaudio has its own mixer control (not included in gentoo's pulseaudio package) so maybe it does make sense to remove that function from gnome's volume control applet. However, the most important thing I learned is that I have no use whatever for pulseaudio -- and I doubt that many other people do, either. It seems to be a massively complex solution hunting for a problem. How many of us want/need to play two or more soundtracks at the same time? If I'm wrong about this, please correct me. I'd like to know why all those devs spent so much energy building it. Thanks.
