On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 5:51 PM Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/7/21 1:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 10:11:29AM +0000, Dridi Boukelmoune wrote:
>>> I have retired everything discussed here.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Earlier I asked whether the Xfce changes relating to pipewire could
>> trickle down to f33. I'm still planning to give rawhide with Xfce 4.16
>> and pipewire a try with a live image, but what I meant with f33 is
>> that currently I can't swap pulseaudio with pipewire-pulseaudio
>> because xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin currently has an explicit dependency
>> on the former.
>>
>> It looks like both pulseaudio and pipewire-pulseaudio packages provide
>> pulseaudio-daemon, and maybe xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin could depend on
>> that to work with both implementations. And I was hoping this specific
>> change could trickle down to f33 so I could test pipewire on my
>> current f33/Xfce 4.14 system. That's my last show stopper right now.
>> The other packages that would be erased if I swapped both
>> implementations today can go away without bothering me too much.
>>
>> Sorry if that was confusing, and thanks again for maintaining Xfce in Fedora.
>
> Yeah, I totally think it makes sense to change xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
> to work with either and move it's dep to 'pulseaudio-daemon' from
> 'pulseaudio'.
>
> kevin
>
>
There is a problem in doing this. If we move to pulseaudio-daemon, we
lose our current volume mixer - pavucontrol (which, I am sure requires
pulseaudio and is not generic). Other DEs, as far as I know (i.e. GNOME,
MATE, and Cinnamon), have their own mixers. pulseaudio-plugin relies on
an external mixer.
I would prefer not to move to without a suitable replacement for
pavucontrol - if we can avoid it. Does pipewire provide a suitable
replacement for pavucontrol?
Does this make sense?
pavucontrol works fine with PipeWire. The libpulse library interacts
with the PipeWire-PulseAudio daemon just fine, and everything
basically works.
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