On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 22:48 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
please
describe in detail what you
think a user friendly interface would look like.
There are several issues at different points:
* alsaconf has done a really great job in the past, but meanwhile I see
the need for a replacement which can handle more than one card, support
USB (and in the future firewire) devices, can read an existing
configuration, set a certain device as the default device and so on.
Based on such a new script, we then could build even GUI configuration
frontends (Qt, Gtk, KDE, you name it)
Much of this is already done - Gnome provides both a GUI and CLI
interface to set the default soundcard, System->Preferences->Sound.
It's unfortunate that many apps don't have a way to configure the sound
device they use.
Lee