On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 02:40 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:35 -0400, David Boles wrote: > > Pulseaudio is supposed to allow you to set the volume level(s) of > > various applications/output devices so that they can be different. > > Music soft. Ta-Ta! loud. As well as others. What is not so functional > > is the applications that are not yet able to mix with pulseaudio. > > To my mind, it goes about this the wrong way. A case in point: You're > listening to your music at a reasonable level, and some annunciator > fires off at full volume. Unfortunately, you can't do anything about > that, as they're so quick to finish that you couldn't get to a volume > control in time. And even if you did manage to reduce the volume while > a long sample played, the next time the annunciator fires off it'll be > at the default full volume, again. > > The things that make sounds, should control their own volumes, > themselves. A volume control in your music player, not some external > controller, should control its playback level, and not affect anything > else. The system annunciators should have their own level in the > appropriate control panel for the sounds (where you set which sounds > will be heard, for which events, should also set the level). Other > applications should have their own volume levels. The only sensible > external control should be a master volume, one that you can crank up > and down to make everything loud or quiet, in proportion to your > listening environment, as well as be able to quickly mute everything > when the phone rings. > > The whole idea of a "mixer panel" approach is alien to the average > person who's never used a collection of equipment hooked up to a mixer. > And it's made all the more worse by bad setups of the mixer (badly > labelled controls, most controls needing to be run at maximum, etc.). > About the only sensible place for using a mixer on the computer is for > making recordings. Totally agree with this. It's hard enough even figuring out what the various mixer controls even control. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
