XFCE upgraded to 4.16

[Guido Falsi]

On 03/01/21 19:15, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks for the news. When it will be available I'll make a port for sure.

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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>