>xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed relying on this
>interface with gstreamer0.10, our mixer
>application and volume daemon cannot be ported
>to 1.0 and are consequently not maintained
>anymore.

Heh, how do they think we are going manage our
sound I wonder.

Xfce has always been lacking a couple of things
to be a complete environment (even a light one)
and now they drop these things just because.