Re: [gnome-love] Retrieve sound settings

[Juan Rafael Garcia Blanco <jgblanco mail gmail com>]

Thank you Bastien. Actually I don't want to get the volume level, just
if some sinks are muted. My intention is to disable sound settings
controls in an application if gnome sounds are muted. Then I should
read PulseAudio documentation to figure out how to do this. Thank you.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 15:39 +0200, Juan Rafael Garcia Blanco wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to retrieve the volume setting of alerts. I've done a
> > search using d-feet to check if some module exposes that setting, but
> > I could not find anything. I have also checked dconf, and found
> > nothing. I have read some of the gnome-control-center source code
> > relating to sound settings, and it seems to use hardwire pulseaudio.
> > Then I have two questions: does Gnome use definitely pulseaudio as
> > audio server (I mean on every linux/bsd distribution)? and is there
> > some way to retrieve the information I want without dealing with
> > pulseaudio APIs?
>
> We use the PulseAudio settings for that. Any particular reason why you
> would want to get that volume? If it's just to play some sound at that
> volume, there's easier ways to do it (like not caring, and playing the
> sound saying you are an event sound).