13 Jun
2005
13 Jun
'05
8:43 p.m.
what i meant was that there has been dramatically
insufficient attention paid to the development of ALSA
tools and/or APIs that provide the kind of functionality
that desktop users want. it has been put off and put off as
the other parts of ALSA have evolved, and now we have a
really very powerful and flexible system that is more or
less unusable from a control point of view (for desktop
users).
Yes and no. The Desktop users usually choose a Distro which is
able to set up ALSA just fine (I personally dislike distro
dependent config tools, regardless if their name was YAST or
DrakConf).
After that they most often feel happy by controlling the
master volume via a mixer applet like kmix.
I agree that alsamixer needs a replacement. I tried to write
one, but failed in an early stage due to my ignorance :) .
software mixing was something (for example) that in
retrospect clearly should have been on the table from day
one.
Or day two, yes, I absolutely agree.
simple mixer interfaces, ditto.
I still think it's very difficult to create a really good
mixer interface.
Best regards
ce