On Thursday 23 April 2009 21:50:57 Lennart Poettering wrote:
However my plans for F12 should hopefully help to make this issue go
away: on many machines we have quite a few volume controls in
series. e.g. on Thinkpads there is the hw volume that is controlled by
those magic keys, and then there is master, and then there is PCM. My
plan is to collapse them all into a single slider which is possible if
we have dB information about the sliders. The resulting slider would
be the multiplication of the seperate sliders. This would both
increase the range and the granularity of the overall volume slider
and also allows us to fix the mixer initialization issue a bit since
we would control both PCM and Master.
...this is not the right way to go.
Often, doing so with (say) a high-level CD input, will lead to clipping
somewhere in the hardware as soon as you add another signal. You have more than
one volume control for a reason.
This should fix a lot of problems for a lot of people. However it
will
of course also annoy Mr. Lerwick. But I fear I have to live with that
I guess.
This is - perhaps understandably, from reading the preceding discussion - being
completely dismissive of a real user with, from his point of view, a valid
complaint and use case. What makes him (and I, and others) upset is the clear
fact that you're not interested in "supporting" our use-cases *at all* ...
and
we don't have any particularly bizarre needs.