[pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control

[Piscium]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>
> To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de
> Sent: Mon, 7 June, 2010 0:04:49
> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control
> 
> > On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 20:39 +0000, Piscium wrote:
> > ----- 
> Original Message ----
> > > > > > From: Ng Oon-Ee <
> ymailto="mailto:ngoonee at gmail.com" 
> href="mailto:ngoonee at gmail.com">ngoonee at gmail.com>
> > To: 
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> > Sent: Sun, 6 June, 2010 21:30:31
> > > > > Subject: Re: 
> [pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound Preferences and PulseAudio 
> Volume Control
> > 
> > On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 18:03 +0000, 
> Piscium wrote:
> > > I am running Fedora 13, though my question 
> applies to other versions and other Gnome distros.
> > > 
> 
> > > > On the Gnome panel there is by default (that is, after 
> installation) a speaker icon, and if I right click on it I can get to a dialogue 
> box titled Sound Preferences.
> > > 
> > > There is also 
> PulseAudio Volume Control which is available as a separate package not installed 
> by default.
> > > 
> > > The settings available in Gnome 
> Sound Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control are quite similar : selection of 
> input and output devices, volume and so on.
> > > 
> > > 
> > My questions are these: 
> > > What is the difference between 
> these two applications? 
> > > Considering that I already get by 
> default the  Gnome Panel Sound Preferences do I need the PulseAudio Volume 
> Control at all?
> > > 
> > > I know this is a very basic 
> question but please pardon my ignorance!
> > > 
> > > 
> Thanks.
> > 
> > The Gnome Sound Prefences UI is a simplified 
> version of pavucontrol (the
> > Pulseaudio Volume Control package 
> you're talking about). Primarily it
> > lacks a good way of moving apps 
> to other outputs. It does provide you
> > with easy access to 
> Gnome-specific sounds though (the 'sound theme'
> > stuff).
> 
> 
> Thanks Ng.
> 
> This begs the question, do the two tools 
> write to the same >
configuration files or different ones?
> 
> 
> Because if it is to the same configuration file they could 
> conflict,
> no? That is, one tool could overwrite the changes made by the 
> other?

First off, please don't top-post, and please fix the threading 
> with your
mail-client (looks like you're using a webmail). Fixed for you 
> this
time.

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This is the first time ever anyone asks me to post top, bottom or otherwise. No problem. I just wonder if this is a forum rule, and if so, if there are more like this as I would rather not unwittingly infringe them. 

For this email I enabled a Yahoo option "When replying & forwarding: Quote the text of the original message". The result is not pretty, as you can see above. The lines were broken and the '>' inserted in the wrong places, This looks like a Yahoo bug. If I had not enabled that option then it would be difficult to distinguish an answer from the previous post (no indentation). 

So it appears that Yahoo is not suitable for this forum. Perhaps I will consider opening a gmail account or alternatively use a client with the Yahoo account - which would mean that emails would be downloaded to my computer. 

Which is all quite interesting. We hear so much about cloud computing where most people only have thin clients and all the data resides in the cloud, and Yahoo Mail, one of the most prominent cloud services falls short! Needless to say I do not believe this cloud hype.
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On-topic - yes they control the same thing, you can think 
> of them as two
steering wheels to the same car. You wouldn't want tool A to 
> mute your
volume, then the volume to come unmuted when tool B opens. More to 
> the
point, pulseaudio is an audio server, and all these control tools 
> are
just clients manipulating some 
> parameters.

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Thanks, that was a very clear answer. I have now uninstalled pavucontrol.
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