XFCE upgraded to 4.16

[Olivier Duchateau]

Le Sun, 3 Jan 2021 19:04:28 +0100,
Guido Falsi via freebsd-xfce <freebsd-xfce at freebsd.org> a écrit :

> On 03/01/21 17:41, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > On 1/2/21 5:42 PM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-xfce wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just committed the update to xfce 4.16 as r559953 [1]
> > 
> > Hello Guido and, first off, thanks for your work.
> > 
> > Just a question (while I'm choosing which packages to build with 
> > Poudriere)...
> > 
> > I used audio/xfce4-mixer: I see it's gone.
> > audio/xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin is suggested as a replacement.
> > Does this mean I have to run pulseaudio daemon on my laptop just to
> > be able to set the volume???
> > If so, is there any other alternative?
> > 
> 
> With the update to the new XFCE libraries the mixer plugin fails to 
> compile. it requiress GTK2 support, which was dropped from the panel. 
> Support for it was also dropped years ago and the fix is not trivial 
> (major rewrite would be required).
> 
> Upstream replacement is using pulsed. XFCE, like many other desktop 
> environments, by default uses pulsed for managing audio. Actually a
> lot of software uses and prefers pulsed, and I would not be surprised
> if pulsed is actually running in the background on your system
> without you even noticing.
> 
> Apart from this XFCE does not provide a replacement.
> 
> Although, the ports tree does have some other p0orts which could be 
> useful, for example I see audio/volumeicon which should put an icon
> in your system tray with which to set various audio parameters.
> 
> audio/gtmixer also provides a tray icon.
> 
> There are others which, I think< are worth a try.
> 

Hi,

There is new maintainer for xfce4-mixer [1] (see multiple-backends
branch), and OpenBSD developer add sndio support too.

I don't know, when it will be available.

Regards,

[1] https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-mixer/-/tree/multiple-backends

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olivier