[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and Jack

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 27.05.09 19:00, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:

> Adding to my confusion,  Why is the pavucontrol the same icon as the  
> vucontrol applet in Fedora10? 

Because that's the generic volume control icon. It's the one whose
name is defined in the icon naming spec.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

> Also why is the pavucontrol applet located  
> in the Applications/Sound & Video menu when the vucontrol applet is  
> accessed from System/Preferences/Hardware? Is this a Gnome/KDE issue or  
> a Fedora 10 issue?  

Dunno. File a bug against Fedora if that really bothers you.

> I'm upgrading to Fedora 11 now to get libtool-2.x working among
> other things. I hope it has been made less confusing in 11.

F11 ships PA 0.9.15 anyway.

> I have come to understand that pavucontrol is the best way to control  
> the PA system settings but it is not located in the System menu so there  
> is a conflict with vucontrol. I believe this affects many users of  
> Gnome/Fedora and has added to the general negativity on the web towards 
> PA.

pavucontrol is not installed by default anymore on F11.

Lennart

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