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Idea #10614: Merge all sound tools into ONE

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #14682: Unify sound drivers and the sound api.
Written by Darvon the 2 Jul 08 at 11:39. Category: Multimedia. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
There are the usual sound options, there is alsamixer, there is pulseaudio, there are codecs for sound in specific programs etc.
It would be better to have ONE place to configure everything,which has to do with sound.
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Written by Darvon the 2 Jul 08 at 11:39.
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ubby wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 12:01
A very good idea!

tomtom_fr wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 12:19
phonon ?

sparky11 wrote on the 2 Jul 08 at 21:26
This should be done with all the various categories of system configuration.

mwinarto wrote on the 3 Jul 08 at 14:05
Good idea!

brnetonboy wrote on the 3 Jul 08 at 21:58
Instead of merging all of these into one program, wouldn't it be better to create an additional program which is aware of all of these seperate, smaller programs? That way the "mothership" program can be used if you want all the functionality, but it is still modularized, and you can load the smaller programs individually if you don't want a behemoth program to load.

Darvon wrote on the 4 Jul 08 at 09:36
brnetonboy: Well, that's possible, and in the end, I think it doesn't matter. I just meant, that after installing ubuntu, there should be something by default, which can do everything, these programs can, and it should be only one single program.
I'm no ubuntu pro, and I remember how damn hard it was to figure out what I have to download to configure sound, and how hard it was configuring it with all that stuff (eventually, I even gave up).

scientus wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 11:59
really on alsa and -maybe- oss are even decent while the rest is complete trash. I wish there was a way of forcing everything through one interface/driver though

scientus wrote on the 30 Jul 08 at 11:59
cause flash in ff likes to use differnt drivers than everything else

Techno.FM wrote on the 14 Oct 08 at 00:26
Great idea... make it simpler!
+1


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