After the transition from Gnome 2.x to KDE 4.8, there are some audio utilities I cannot find:
Volume control, preferably embedded in a ‘panel’ on the desktop. Basically, something with a slider to control the master volume.
The closest I found is ‘alsamixer’ which is way too big and complicated.
Sound input monitor, shows the sound levels being heard by each audio recording device (microphone input). Simply an applet
that displays the volume (loudness) of sound being captured (even when no recording is actually taking place).
Sound recording app. Just to record my voice or any audio source (mono or stereo) that is connected to the mic or line-in jacks.
This is probably trivial for those who know, but I feel really lost in KDE, it’s been less than a week I switched. For DVD burning,
I still installed Brasero which worked very well in Gnome but it is much much slower in KDE. Is this normal? Is there an alternate
GUI for building DATA Blu-Rays and DVDs using basic D&D and file-selection? I like not have to create ISO images as in middle
step since it saves much time.
We use kmix in KDE for volume control and it shows a small speaker in the icon tray. Some load the volume control called pavucontrol in KDE as well for more input control.
We use k3b for DVD burning in KDE amd make sure to load it and the k3b-codecs file from Packman for full multimedia support.
k3b can burn data blu-ray disks just fine as I have done this with the 25 GB ones with no problem in KDE.
I can say about an audio recorder, but KDE has all the applications you could need, you just need to find out their names.
kmix is exactly what I was looking for. I looked for so many things kvolume, klevels, kaudio, ksound, etc. All I knew is that it probably started with k
There are no monitors that I found in kmix but the simply enabling the mics is a great substitute.
k3b is installed… it was already but with a name like k3b, I had no idea what it was. Guess I expected kburner or something. My system refuses to install k3b-codecs
on the grounds that k3b is too new, so I guess it should be a few more weeks (hopefully not months) until they catch up. Either way, I’ll try k3b the next time I need to
burn a Blu-Ray and see.
Yes, if this is your first time using KDE, then none of the normal names is going to pop out as I am not even sure how anyone came up with the name of k3b for a disk burning utility, that is for sure. caf4926 posted the correct method to use to switch your multimedia packages to those from Packman so give it a try. After, you have followed the guide, you can confirm your success with the bash script mmcheck you can find here:
