Re: re:[linux-audio-user] Saving Alsa Mixer Settings

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 05:11:57 EEST

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:39 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:28 -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > Nigel,
> >
> > Yes, I am using KDE. I have now read the alsactl man page, and run (as
> > sudo ) 'alsactl store'
>
> Why is KDE so stupid?

More precisely: Why doesn't KDE just exec "alsactl store" to save its
settings, rather than its own mysterious KDE-specific method?

IMHO this illustrates a key difference in the Gnome/KDE philosophy where
Gnome is clearly superior. When confronted with a problem like saving
mixer settings the KDE people seem to go for whatever is easiest to get
working, while the Gnome people will wait for a *correct* solution, even
if it means KDE gets $FOO feature before them.

Any software engineer worth their salt will tell you that the easiest
cheapest solution is almost always WRONG.

Lee
Received on Thu Sep 1 08:15:04 2005

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