[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#785846: Bug#785846: xfce4-mixer: Please update to GStreamer 1.x

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mi, 2015-05-20 at 16:22 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mer., 2015-05-20 at 16:03 +0300, slomo at debian.org wrote:
> > For the next Debian release GStreamer 0.10 is planned to be removed,
> > and if your package is not updated it might not be included in the
> > release. Please update your package to use the new version as soon as
> > possible.
> 
> Then please update gstreamer1.0 to bring back mixer API? :)

If you have a proposal for a new API for that, it might be taken into
consideration :) The problem with the old API was that it was mostly
useless and suboptimal for most applications (except apparently
xfce4-mixer), and did not fit the GStreamer API model very well.

I think the API that PulseAudio provides for mixer settings is much
saner, and also abstracting whatever sound system is actually running
beneath it.

> Joke aside, porting won't be possible, and it's not sure what can be
> done besides that, so the only solution might be to remove the package.

Alternatively you could use native mixer APIs instead, like whatever
libasound2, libpulse and maybe OSS provide. That worked fine for GNOME
until they just dropped support for everything except PulseAudio.
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