Since most of
the noobs to linux are comming from a
windows background, wouldn't it help if the mixer app was
modeled after the mixer app used for these cards / chips
on windows? i.e. no learning curve. (maybe it already is,
I've tried to stay away from them)
Yes but this is harder than you think and requires time and
a lot of work.
I guess it would be great if we could have a framework which
enables »normal« users to somehow write the GUI for a certain
card.
qamix which is configurable using XML files is a first step.
Unfortunately, qamix depends on the controls that are
provided by the ALSA driver, and in case of my Aureon USB,
none of the mixers offers a GUI which I can easily
understand. Furthermore, I'd like to have radio button which
automatically disable others and so on, but of course we can
and should not write an GUI mixer for avery single card out
there. But a generic program which at the same time is fully
GUI configurable would be a really great thing and help a lot
to avoid newbie questions and make live also easier for
advanced users.
I'm not deeply involved in Linux audio and especially ALSA,
but I would be interested if it would be able to create such
a mixer framework application.
Setting up the Aureon on Linux is not easy. The original
Terratec control panel is better (no wonder ;-).
On the other hand, when I watch the generic Windows AC 97
mixer, kmix is almost as good as the windows one; I cannot
agree that windows mixers are better in general.
When we do something, let's not copy windows, but let's do it
better than something that already exists!
Best regards
ce
