Cool VL Viewer forum

I agree that the 2.0 UI is awful; and I'd stay with Cool always -- EXCEPT for voice. I have gotten involved in several conversations where I'm half out of the loop because much of the discussion takes place in voice. I don't begin to understand all the tech issues involved (I'm a lowly database app developer, not a system programmer)... all I know is they finally got it working in 2.0. No additional modules need to be loaded, no background processes like jack or pulseaudio to handle audio requests. I just fired it up and it works. Just for grins I tried copying SLVoice and the various vivox stuff from 2.0 into my Cool VL Viewer folder but of course that didn't work. I hope one day we'll see the perfect union of the Cool UI and the 2.0 voice chat system! Until then I guess I'll use 2.0 for my voice chat sessions and Cool for everything else.

Since someone will probably ask: Arch Linux with all packages updated as of 04/27/10, kernel 2.6.33, AMD dual core 3Ghz with 8GB RAM, Geforce 9500GT, onboard Intel HDA sound chip ("Azalia").

Thanks, I'll try OSS. I had thought that OSS was the "deprecated" API and ALSA was The Next Generation, but I should know better than to believe everything I read!

I took the survey and listed about a dozen of show stoppers in the remark box for this horrendous new UI... Among them: no multiple floaters (for profiles, for example), a stupid, enormous, non resizable, space devastating side bar (making it impossible to keep the friends list open all the time, for example), the ridiculously small chat input line, the missing buttons in the toolbar (mini-map, map, fly, search, etc) and the useless ones (among which the voice one you can't remove), the non transparent console for chat, the spammy notices in chat, the stupidly huge borders around the floaters (and why the Hell did they make the movement and camera controls full floaters: it only makes them HUGE and eats up more screen space !), etc, etc, etc...