On 6 August 2014 12:10, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote: > 06.08.2014 12:15, Arun Raghavan wrote: >> >> On 6 August 2014 10:28, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote: [...] >>> Well, I am not sure. The doubt comes out from the possibility of an >>> incompetent web programmer to create many stupid audio contexts from the >>> same tab, thus again returning the slider-pollution problem. >> >> >> I think that sort of use should be considered bad behaviour (on any >> system, creating and not freeing resources will inevitable hit a >> limit), so trying to deal with that might not make sense. > > > It does make sense. Instead of (or in addition to) the global limit, we > might introduce a per-group limit or something like that, so that it is hit > first. But I was talking more about the UI issue, because the limit that is > _actually_ hit first is the number of UI elements (sliders in pavucontrol) > that the user is willing to tolerate. I.e. I want to enforce the "one slider > per tab" rule strictly, even if this means excluding some use cases. I guess we're in disagreement there. We can discuss this further, either in a separate thread, or at GstConf (or both), but I would like to get some more opinions on getting this patch in soon, since it's a practical fix that we can use now. -- Arun
