ANNOUNCE: xfce4-volumed 0.1.5 released

[Steve Dodier-2]

xfce4-volumed 0.1.5 is now available for download from
 
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-volumed/0.1/xfce4-volumed-0.1.5.tar.bz2
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-volumed/0.1/xfce4-volumed-0.1.5.tar.bz2.md5
  http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-volumed/0.1/xfce4-volumed-0.1.5.tar.bz2.sha1

  SHA1 checksum: 0d5b3e6a047898a10c845f879fe5f5f0e7faf434
   MD5 checksum: d2660325b287210ac779ab4e38c7399e


What is xfce4-volumed?
======================

This daemon is responsible of making the volume up/down and mute keys of
the keyboard work automatically, and uses the XFCE 4 mixer's card
setting for chosing which card to act on. It also provides volume change
/ mute toggle notifications if the notification server used supports
x-canonical-icon-only and x-canonical-synchronous notifications.

Website:
  https://launchpad.net/xfce4-volumed


Release notes for 0.1.5
=======================

* Support for asynchronous libnotify daemons
* Move support for legacy libxcb-keysyms to the main branch with a build
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[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On 10/28/09, sidnioulz@... <sidnioulz@...> wrote:
> xfce4-volumed 0.1.5 is now available for download from
[..]
>  * Support for asynchronous libnotify daemons
>
Might I suggest a shorter message for the notifications? The current
"Volume is at 57%" seems long to me, and it makes difficult to read
the actual volume changes. Wouldn't a short "Vol: 57%" or similar
suffice?

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Liviu
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[David Mohr-8]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> On 10/28/09, sidnioulz@... <sidnioulz@...> wrote:
>> xfce4-volumed 0.1.5 is now available for download from
> [..]
>>  * Support for asynchronous libnotify daemons
>>
> Might I suggest a shorter message for the notifications? The current
> "Volume is at 57%" seems long to me, and it makes difficult to read
> the actual volume changes. Wouldn't a short "Vol: 57%" or similar
> suffice?

Or make it configurable? Some may think that's overkill, but my guess
is you don't have many settings yet, so maybe it's Ok.

~David
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[Jannis Pohlmann-3]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:32:31 +0000
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> On 10/28/09, sidnioulz@... <sidnioulz@...> wrote:
> > xfce4-volumed 0.1.5 is now available for download from
> [..]
> >  * Support for asynchronous libnotify daemons
> >
> Might I suggest a shorter message for the notifications? The current
> "Volume is at 57%" seems long to me, and it makes difficult to read
> the actual volume changes. Wouldn't a short "Vol: 57%" or similar
> suffice?

Abbreviations in GUIs suck. They make less experienced users think
about what they mean. I know, sometimes it's quite obvious but please
don't do this.

  - Jannis


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[Steve Dodier-2]

I do not want to put an abbreviation by default, for the reason Jannis mentionned.

Yet, I may make the string configurable in future releases – and more important, translatable. This is one of the little things I have to do... Most important now is support for that damn PulseAudio thing...
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[Christoph Wickert-2]

Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 19:45 +0100 schrieb Steve Dodier:
> I do not want to put an abbreviation by default, for the reason Jannis
> mentionned.

Agreed. How about "Volume: 50%" then? I don't think we need whole
sentences.

BTW: Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but besides of the
notifications, what is the use of volumed? We already have
XF86AudioLowerVolume, XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioMute which can
be bound to some like "amixer set Master 10%- -q" with
xfce4-keyboard-settings. This is highly configurable and should work for
nearly all keyboards as HAL will take care of the mappings.

So what is the use of having another daemon running?

> Yet, I may make the string configurable in future releases – and more
> important, translatable. This is one of the little things I have to
> do... Most important now is support for that damn PulseAudio thing...

Works fine here with PA on Fedora, although it uses ALSA on top of PA.

Regards,
Christoph

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[Steve Dodier-2]

2009/10/30 Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@...>

Am Freitag, den 30.10.2009, 19:45 +0100 schrieb Steve Dodier:

> I do not want to put an abbreviation by default, for the reason Jannis
> mentionned.

Agreed. How about "Volume: 50%" then? I don't think we need whole
sentences.

BTW: Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but besides of the
notifications, what is the use of volumed? We already have
XF86AudioLowerVolume, XF86AudioRaiseVolume and XF86AudioMute which can
be bound to some like "amixer set Master 10%- -q" with
xfce4-keyboard-settings. This is highly configurable and should work for
nearly all keyboards as HAL will take care of the mappings.

So what is the use of having another daemon running?

That's exactly what I asked to Jannis when he thought about implementing such a daemon. :)

The answer is that it's faster to do it via a daemon that will catch keyboard events and directly speak with Gstreamer. Once the GUI allows it, you can also graphically change the track to act on, just like for the mixer applet. Also, it makes life easier for end users who don't know much about scripts. And it shows sexy notifications.

> Yet, I may make the string configurable in future releases – and more
> important, translatable. This is one of the little things I have to
> do... Most important now is support for that damn PulseAudio thing...

Works fine here with PA on Fedora, although it uses ALSA on top of PA.

Some problems with Pulseaudio are some tracks/cards not displayed, the volume muted to 0% when get_volume() is used at xfce4-volumed's initialisation, and now some mysterious libpulse function likely to be using 100% of the CPU when xfce4-volumed is idling.

Regards,
Christoph

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[Yves-Alexis Perez-2]

On ven., 2009-10-30 at 20:10 +0100, Steve Dodier wrote:
> The answer is that it's faster to do it via a daemon that will catch
> keyboard events and directly speak with Gstreamer.

Though it still doesn't seem to work here. It correctly shows
notifications when I bind my volume keys to amixer in xfce4-settings,
but if I don't do that, then nothing is displayed :/

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