winecfg: Remove driver selection from Audio tab.

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Mon Sep 26 20:20:33 CDT 2011


On 09/26/2011 09:10 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:50:22PM +0200, Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com wrote:
>> I'm not satisfied with the removal of the audio tree from winecfg.
>> Beside allowing to switch or disable drivers, one key feature was to
>> allow inspecting the devices that winmm found on this system.
>
> The goal of that patch, like the subject says, was to remove driver
> selection. Obviously a side-effect of removing that entire tree was
> removing the list of detected devices. I personally don't really see
> the use of listing the detected devices, which is why I just removed
> the tree wholesale.
>
> If folks find the device list useful, I wouldn't be at all opposed to
> adding it again in some form (obviously it would use MMDevAPI directly
> instead of WinMM like the old code... except for MIDI devices, I
> guess). I am opposed to adding the driver selection functionality back
> in, though.
>
> Andrew
>
>
Could we please wait another week (until after the wineconf) before doing 
these whole sale changes?

Please leave sound system and related winecfg code as-is.

Vitaliy.



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