Proposal: stop configuring soundcards through /etc/modprobe.conf

[Kevin Kofler]

Leszek Matok <Lam <at> Lam.pl> writes:
> You can't expect users to learn tens of names of daemons that are under the
> hood.

Then you end up with at least 3 different menu entries all called "Volume 
Control" (pavucontrol, gnome-volume-control, kmix, there's probably more) and 
no idea which is which.

> The correct entry would be "Volume Control", a program that can control
> volume settings of every sound system currently enabled, or present a user
> with a list of possible volume control applications (hiding ones that won't
> work), eplaining the difference between them and spawning them at will.

A metaprogram? No thanks!

        Kevin Kofler