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Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] [RFC] alsa integer control ranges
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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 11:47 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>=20
> The mixer stuff is the weakest point in the current ALSA
> implementation, and it has to be sorted out better.=20

Here's another item for the wishlist:

Give applications an option to tell the library they can handle
ENUMERATED controls, and then don't mess with them. And then, if the
application *doesn't* tell the lib it can handle ENUMERATED controls,
split up *all* the enumerated controls instead of just the "Capture
Source" one. The current behaviour:
 - it splits up the Capture Source one but no others
 - it doesn't allow apps to get the real intention

is bogus for the following reasons:
 - most GUI programs get *checkboxes* that are mutually exclusive
 - a lot of GUI programs that cannot handle ENUMERATED items
   totally screw up when they still get an enumerated one just
   because it had a different name.

johannes

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