Patch for KMix

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Sun Nov 30 12:47:24 GMT 2003


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On Sunday 30 November 2003 7:27, Christian Esken wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 23:14, Scott Wheeler wrote:

> And if the option is in the menubar it would get clearer?

No, it would be harder to find, which would be a good thing.  ;-)  Oh, and 
because that's where it would be under almost any other circumstances...
 
> Disabling is absolutely out-of-question, as important soundcard-dependent 
> switches are available there, like input selection (Optical vs Coax SPDIF).
> The "Advanced" options are already hidden by default.

Then in the future this should have a popup when you enable it explaining 
what's going on.

> And it is a driver matter, whether these options are understandable or not. 
> For example the "nForce2" driver has options like "Swap Surround", 
> "Duplicate Front", "Exchange Center/LFE". You can easily understand those by 
> their name (or by clicking them and hearing the difference).

Well, but uhm, that's great if they get lucky -- and happen to speak English.  
For everyone else there a checkbox right up front to turn on large group of 
options that don't make any sense.

- -Scott

- -- 
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb 
as the next guy. 
- --Richard Feynman
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