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On Saturday 17 November 2007, Thufir wrote: |
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> After mucking about with alsamixer and various control-panel type |
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> things in GNOME, sound works and I can play mp3's. On the one hand, |
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> great. On the other, why are there multiple mute buttons and volume |
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> controls? That's a really weird idea, that "unmute" must, apparently, |
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> be checked in multiple locations. Aaaargh. |
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Think about this a little bit. Modern audio hardware has multiple inputs |
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and often multiple outputs as well. |
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You absolutely need to be able to control these independantly, because |
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that's the way stuff works. Maybe you have a mic and a cd-rom as |
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inputs, how could you possibly control them with one input? Think audio |
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mixing hardware - many inputs. You have to be able to mute or unmute |
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them individually. You can't link the volume controls so one slider |
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controls everything becuase electronic devices don't increase and |
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decrease the amount of signal exactly the same way. |
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Any attempt to give you an audio control that works in a different way |
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to what you have will be horribly broken and unusable. Then you really |
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would be have something to complain about. |
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Bitching here about this is a bit like moaning that you have 6 lights on |
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in your house and to get darkness you have to switch on 6 switches in |
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different places. Silly, huh? |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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