[Tim wrote about sound mixing] Patrick O'Callaghan: >> Totally agree with this. It's hard enough even figuring out what the >> various mixer controls even control. David Boles: > It is a choice. If you, either of you, do not like it you should disable it. > But I seriously doubt that Pulseaudio will 'just go away' because you don't > like it. ;-) What I wrote was less about pulse audio, per se, but the whole idea of sound mixing, with or without it. Pulse audio gives you individual volume levels, but really they're controlled from the wrong place. Alsa is somewhat similar. I see the value of being able to call up a mixer, and adjust levels. But let that be a remote. So if you adjust volume on your CD player, it's the *same* as adjusting it on the mixer (not two interactive controls - have the same control in two places). Pulse audio comes into it's own when you do something like turn the sound down on your ogg player, and only the ogg player, you don't adjust all the PCM devices, or screw around with the master control. But, again, the volume control on the player should be the *same* control that you get to play with on the mixer panel. And quite why we have two messily interdependent volume control mixer thingoes is beyond me (on Gnome, at least). We have the volume control thing, that we've been used to over the last few years, plus the pulse audio volume controller. And both need playing with to hear sound. Which is made all the more harder by pulse audio's controls disappearing and appearing, depending on whether your audio software is currently playing, or not. And going back to something I touched on in my original message, the average set of system annunciators are stupidly created, anyway. Yes, you probably do want a loud "red alert" sound file for big warnings and emergencies. But you want much softer dings and beeps for things like incoming messages, and "okay" responses. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
