[Question] Why aren't you using the GVC Library? about wingpanel-indicator-sound

[tintou]

The sound panel was started a while ago and the library choice has been driven by the fact that we were 100% sure to use PulseAudio only on elementary, so a few parameters went to this decision:

• why add another abstraction level to talk to a specific component
• libgnome-control-volume is defined as a "drop-in" library that has to be used as git submodule, we were using bazaar at this time and keeping the library up-to-date is a real mess doing this way. Not even talking about the symbol collisions that would appear on Wingpanel side (where we need to load the Switchboard plugs to search).

So if it might make sense to use it in the future, I really hope that this becomes a shared library instead of a static one.

I hope that it answers your question…

[AdrianVovk]

@danrabbit Is the dev who wrote the code back from their vacation yet? Sorry to bother you about this again

[AdrianVovk]

@tintou Thank you very much!