[linux-audio-user] thoughts towards an ALSA configuration utility

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:45 +0100, tim hall wrote:
> On Monday 12 September 2005 16:03, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> >   While I was working on the JACK article I was reminded how much I rely
> > on is Rui Capela's QJackCtl. I haven't touched JACK at the command-line
> > in a long while, thanks to QJC.
> >
> >   So I was thinking about the complexity of configuring ALSA and I
> > started wondering what I'd want to see in a more complete ALSA
> > configuration utility. I'm just rambling out loud here, so feel free to
> > add and comment:
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> Actually I can't think of anything to add right now, but I've saved this for 
> later reference. Alsaconf's interface is and has been awful for ages. I would 
> just put in a vote for building in such a way as to make a GTK2 interface 
> possible. Although a QT interface would be perfectly acceptable, in fact 
> anything has to better than ncurses. I started work on a PyGTK model of this 
> a while ago, but got distracted. I don't have the skills to implement the 
> hardware configuration stuff anyway, but it would be pretty easy to wrap 
> utilities that would be normally available from the command line.
> 
> Call the backend AlsaCtl - it's sort of obvious isn't it? and then you can 
> append the appropriate acronym for the front-end. The difficulty will be 
> avoiding a massive dependency chain doing it my way, that's if you want to 
> wash the dishes as well. ;) I shall doubtless leave the coding up to people 
> who know what they're doing, but it's something I have been pondering for a 
> while and I'd be happy to put some effort into making it happen.
> 

Doesn't system-config-soundcard in Fedora already do all this?

Lee