One more ping. Am I the only one using MATE/annoyed by this?
On 01/07/18 00:09, Lari Rasku wrote:
> Ping. Any chance to get this merged?
>
> On 12/25/17 16:14, Lari Rasku wrote:
>> On MATE, the system and MATE mixers are distinct, and it's easy
>> to get them out of sync: the volume control applet's slider
>> controls only the MATE mixer, mixerctl controls only the system
>> mixer, and the volume up/down keys control both (thanks to
>> handlers in mate-settings-daemon). This gets confusing very
>> fast, as the volume slider naturally only reflects the state of
>> the MATE mixer, but audio playback volume is also affected by
>> the (invisible without mixerctl) system mixer.
>>
>> The distinct mixers are due to libmatemixer using pulseaudio as
>> its backend, which in turn uses sndio(7), which doesn't touch
>> mixer(4). This patch makes libmatemixer use OSS as its backend
>> instead, which does use mixer(4).
>>
>> This probably costs some pulseaudio-specific functionality, but
>> I don't know enough about it to tell what. Anyone know better?
>> Is it worth keeping the current confusing mixer behavior?
>>
>> I expect a similar problem affects other desktop environments
>> using pulseaudio as their audio backend. A more comprehensive
>> fix would thus be to change pulseaudio to use mixer(4) (directly
>> or indirectly) to control the volume, but I don't know how this
>> might best be done.
>>
>> diff --git Makefile Makefile
>> index f24450972..d4a4344c4 100644
>> --- Makefile
>> +++ Makefile
>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>> COMMENT= mixer library for MATE desktop
>>
>> MATE_PROJECT= libmatemixer
>> -REVISION= 2
>> +REVISION= 3
>>
>> SHARED_LIBS += matemixer 0.0 # 0.0
>>
>> @@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ CATEGORIES= audio
>> # LGPLv2
>> PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM= Yes
>>
>> -WANTLIB += ICE SM X11 X11-xcb Xext Xi Xtst m pthread xcb pulse
>> -WANTLIB += FLAC dbus-1 execinfo ffi glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0
>> -WANTLIB += gobject-2.0 iconv intl ogg pcre pulse-mainloop-glib
>> -WANTLIB += sndfile vorbis vorbisenc
>> +WANTLIB += ICE SM X11 X11-xcb Xext Xi Xtst m pthread xcb ossaudio
>> +WANTLIB += ffi glib-2.0 gmodule-2.0 gobject-2.0 iconv intl pcre
>>
>> MODULES= x11/gnome
>>
>> -LIB_DEPENDS= audio/pulseaudio
>> +LIB_DEPENDS= devel/glib2
>>
>> CONFIGURE_STYLE= gnu
>>
>> +CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-pulseaudio --enable-oss
>> +
>> .include <bsd.port.mk>
>> diff --git pkg/PLIST pkg/PLIST
>> index ec80aa410..18a4fc892 100644
>> --- pkg/PLIST
>> +++ pkg/PLIST
>> @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ lib/libmatemixer.la
>> @comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.a
>> @comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.la
>> lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-null.so
>> -@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.a
>> -@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.la
>> -lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-pulse.so
>> +@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.a
>> +@comment lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.la
>> +lib/libmatemixer/libmatemixer-oss.so
>> lib/pkgconfig/libmatemixer.pc
>> share/gtk-doc/html/libmatemixer/
>> share/gtk-doc/html/libmatemixer/MateMixerAppInfo.html
>>
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