Downgrading gnome-volume-control and mixer_applet to be usable

[Nathan Grennan]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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


   I saw mention of it on lwn.net, and read through some of it. But I 
missed this bug. Good to know other people are taking it all the way. :)