'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 24/03/11 18:31 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 22:22 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:07 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 24/03/11 12:44 did gyre and gimble: >>>> 2011/3/24 Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans at gmail.com>: >>>>> With this you can specify the volume with 6554, 10%, 0.001 or -60dB, >>>>> all resulting in the same volume change. >>>> >>>> I was also going to add relative volumes, such as +3dB and -5%, by >>>> detecting a + or - sign in the volume. But that clashes with the >>>> absolute dB scale (insofar a dB can ever be absolute) that can also be >>>> negative. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions for graceful handling of this? >>> >>> How about if the first letter of the volume change is an "i" or a "d" >>> then this indicated increment or decrement relative volume? >>> >>> It's not as clean as the +/- labelling sadly but such is life. >>> >>> Alternatively your absolute dB volumes could be specified as "60-dB" or >>> "7+dB" (where 7dB implies "7+dB")... That way the prefix +/- notation >>> could be used for relative adjustments. The only downside there is that >>> setting absolute dB volumes is more confusing (you'd never need to use >>> anything other than XdB for relative adjustments anyway). >>> >>> Personally I'd go for the later as I think relative adjustments are >>> probably more common, so it's syntax should be "neatest", but I could be >>> very wrong :D >> >> Or maybe just do this as a separate set-volume-step command (or >> -increment or something better named)? > > I agree - I think a separate command is a good idea. For command naming, > I suggest "increase-sink-volume" and "decrease-sink-volume". While I think this is a valid solution, I'd prefer to see a single command for the volume adjustment (change-sink-volume?) but use the +/- notation. When we're talking relative adjustments the problem of how the +'s and -'s are interpreted is gone anyway, so this is possible. But I'm not overly fussed so if two commands for inc+dec is easier then so be it. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
