[GSoC 2021] Project Proposal

[Miroslav Lachman]

On 22/03/2021 17:18, Christos Margiolis wrote:
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> Interesting, I didn't really know about that, so I'll have to look more into it
> for sure. In any case, I still think my main argument stands that a library
> which can be used by all userland programs that might want to have access
> to the mixer will be of benefit.
> 
> I've already mentioned a few use cases in my initial email. Even in the case
> that you outlined - the state already being cached in `/var/db/mixerN-state` -
> I think that libmixer(3) could provide with functions that deal with those files,
> instead of having the programmer find ways to deal with them.
> 
> mixer(8) at the moment still doesn't have the option to mute/unmute the
> mixer even with those files existing, so having a library handle all
> that stuff, will make mixer(8) basically a frontend for the library and
> will have cleaner code. And as I've already said in the previous email, other
> programs such as MixerTUI could use the library too. I think that makes
> things more extensible; after all, many FreeBSD programs already follow
> that design (library + a frontend for it).

Mute / unmute will be nice, library + frontend too. But I think there is 
no need to have a running daemon for it.

Just my $0.02.

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman