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?
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