On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:33:48AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 28.05.09 00:53, CJ van den Berg (cj at vdbonline.com) wrote: > > > > I am not convinced. Think about this scenario: you have one stream > > > playing. Reference sink volume, virtual sink volume and stream volume > > > are at -inf dB. Now you move stream volume to 0 dB. This would not > > > change the reference volume level, but would set the virtual volume to > > > 0 dB. According to your suggestion the UI would stick to the ref > > > volume, and hence you get *full* output with the UI showing volume at > > > -inf dB. I am pretty sure that people would be confused about that > > > even more than they are with the current logic. > > > > Well, I think the stream volume should ?push? the reference volume. ie. > > if stream volume > reference volume then reference volume == stream > > volume. The would be pretty intuitive if you ask me. > > Doesn't work either since this reintroduces all the problems that made > us come up with the concept of the ref volume in the first place: > > If a stored volume for a stream says 2 dB more than ref volume, then > when we apply this we will change the ref volume itself (since we need > to 'push' it as you suggest). i.e. before the stream appeared we where > at ref volume x, when it appeared we set the ref volume to x+2dB. This doesn?t make sense. If the stream volume slider ?pushes? the ref volume slider, then the stream volume can never be > 0 dB (relative to the ref volume). For legacy stored stream volumes > 0 dB, just round them down to 0 dB. And there is no need to store it after rounding either. CJ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090528/03929c11/attachment.pgp>
