[SOLVED] pulseaudio.tcz feedback (PA)

[aus9]

juanito
HI

thanks for maintaining this package......as I lack the skills to do so. (Most images below are from the wiki but the paman is from another site I uploaded to )

Low priority, when you get a chance and only if you feel like answering me, as I am biased against PA

1) Your info file appears to recommend running "pavucontrol" but looking at Files under Apps, command does not exist?



2) Looking under files I can also not spot some other "gui" or bloatware type panels such as
paprefs.....which one way to setup virtual stream mixing



pavumeter



paman......main purpose  is to gui disconnect and reconnect PA when you manually edit the *.conf files especially things like 2 ch to 6 ch, default quality like 41400 to some higher number etc




2) looking under files I noticed "/usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper"

but under depends I could not spot gconf as a depend, can I suggest on next upgrade you consider this please?

cheers and thanks for reading

TRIVIA

was planning on updating the PA wiki but the pavucontrol has me stumped.
IMHO those using PA are less likely to be concerned with bloatware and may prefer gui panels
 

[Juanito]

Your info file appears to recommend running "pavucontrol" but looking at Files under Apps, command does not exist?

pavucontrol is a separate extension, if you click on the icon, pavucontrol runs 

(and brings up the volume control you show above...)

BTW, I agree with the bloatware comments, but I mainly use pulseaudio to switch between bluetooth headphones/headset and wired speakers and back again - it's not easy to do this without pulseaudio unfortunately

[aus9]

EDITTED

I am a slow learner,

I should have uses apps and run search against "provides" to see missing tcz

there is another post discussing tags but I won't claim any excuse for not using apps corrrectly

cheers

2) ok so can spot paprefs, pavucontrol are split packages so I thought I might try and compile (without doing the correct flags on first run) pavumeter from http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pavumeter/ and get

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checking for GUILIBS... configure: error: Package requirements ( gtkmm-2.4 ) were not met:

We have gtkmm  and its dev package as Version:2.24.2 maintained by an excellent chap and website appears to show bump to 3.5

any interest in bumping or is it too large for TC purposes?
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/

[Juanito]

ok so can spot paprefs, pavucontrol are split packages so I thought I might try and compile (without doing the correct flags on first run) pavumeter

As per http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PerfectSetup:

Install Utilities

There are several auxiliary GUI tools for the PulseAudio sound server:

    PulseAudio Volume Control

    PulseAudio Preferences

For basic volume control, use the utility provided by your desktop environment. Alternatively pavucontrol can be used, with the advantage that it maps more closely to the inner workings of PulseAudio.

There is also the somewhat deprecated PulseAudio Volume Meter. The two utilities PulseAudio Manager and PulseAudio Device Chooser are obsolete and should not be used.

..so pavumeter is "somewhat depreciated" 

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checking for GUILIBS... configure: error: Package requirements ( gtkmm-2.4 ) were not met:

We have gtkmm  and its dev package as Version:2.24.2 maintained by an excellent chap and website appears to show bump to 3.5

any interest in bumping or is it too large for TC purposes?
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/

Since gtkmm is indeed at 2.24.2, this error message is probably due to something else (gtkmm-dev, a dep of gtkmm?) missing - you might take a look at config.log to see if this helps track down the problem.

gtkmm-3.5 will no doubt be for gtk3, hence we'll need to separate gtkmm for gtk2 and gtk3 (unless it's backwards compatible). I've recently updated the *mm extensions to the latest (and probably last) versions available for gtk2 and was holding off making them for gtk3 until the need arises.

[aus9]

thanks will check it out when I can

[aus9]

/usr/local/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

am re-testing and no longer getting a PA error in running pulseaudio -v so ignore my request to let GConf.tcz be an extra dep