Downgrading gnome-volume-control and mixer_applet to be usable

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:30 -0700, Nathan Grennan wrote:
> I have installed Fedora 11 preview in VMware, and found that 
> PulseAudio has become more entrenched in Gnome. :( The first symptom of 
> it was the login sound kept repeating till I killed PulseAudio. I found 
> that panel applet was useless. So I hunted for a way to revert to the 
> previous style.
> 
>    First I found I could just downgrade to the older version of 
> gnome-media, but I couldn't do the same with gnome-applets. I tried 
> recompiling the old gnome-applets against the newer Gnome, but that 
> didn't work. Then I found that the newer version of both packages have 
> configure options to revert to the previous style. So I downloaded the 
> src.rpms and recompiled both. It works!
> 
>    I am glad I found these configure options. For a minute I was 
> considering trying to move to XFCE again.

You obviously missed the last week of fedora-devel-list. :)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498136
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