Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:38 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:18 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean? Having full control of your soundcard with all the
> > sliders and stuff is useless?
> > Not displaying everything 1-1 and hiding sliders is an improvement?
> 
> Holy hell yes:
> http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/why-alsa-sucks.png

As an argument for what PulseAudio is doing, that's a complete
non-sequitur. 

The old gnome-volume-control had the facility to show/hide different
mixer elements already -- if you think you _know_ which ones are useful
to expose to the user and which aren't, we had the facility to do that
_already_.

You don't have to do it in such a way that the user _can't_ get at the
extra controls when our heuristics get it wrong (as they _often_ will).

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation