Hello again

After an almost complete rewrite to support separate channels views in the main sliders and switches areas, Alsamixer-Qt4 0.5.0 is now available.

http://xwmw.org/alsamixer-qt4/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/alsamixer-qt4/files/

This is a snapshot from the CHANGELOG file.

* The channels mixer dialog is gone * Mixer elements can be toggled between joined and channels view * Automated switch from joined to channels view if channels values differ for a certain time * New context menus for mixer elements * New dynamic support for the Alsa is_active element flag * New command line arguments similar to the console alsamixer ones * The card selection widget got basic support for Alsa plugins * GUI cleanups and slight style changes * Reduced CPU usage by showing QSpinBox widgets only on demand (mouse over) * Fixed a forgotten debug timer that was always running in 0.4.1 (constant 1% CPU usage)

I ran several tests but since a lot of code has been rewritten there still may be regressions or even new bugs. There're also some implemented features I couldn't test at all because my rather basic hardware doesn't support it.

- Mixer elements with more than two channels. If the sliders arrangement or some graphics for your card with 32 channels per element look weird, please drop me a note and/or a screenshot.

- Is-active flag In theory the mixer should support dynamic hiding and revealing of elements whose is-active flag changes. If it doesn't or even crashes, please tell.

Any comments are welcome.

Best, Sebastian H.