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collinss / Cinnamon-Soundbox

Desklet to manage Sound settings and view and control currently playing media
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ALSA support #21

Closed balsoft closed 7 years ago

balsoft commented 7 years ago

I'm almost certain that it's impossible due to the cinnamon itself not supporting ALSA, but maybe there is some hack or workaround to make this beautiful desklet work with ALSA?

collinss commented 7 years ago

Hi @balsoft, I don't think it is something that can be done currently (though I can't be sure without doing some research). Cinnamon uses PA because there is a library which allows it to interface with PA from the Cinnamon ui. There may be one for ALSA that works, but I can't be sure it is installed on the user's machine. In addition, I don't use ALSA, so testing might be difficult.

Also, I'm really busy right now with other projects. If someone wanted to do the leg-work and figure out how to make it work, I would certainly accept a pr, but I don't plan to do anything of the sort right now.