Re: [FFADO-devel] [FFADO] #160: human-friendly mixer scales

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#160: human-friendly mixer scales
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   Reporter:  sobukus      |       Owner:                            
       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                       
   Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  FFADO 2.2                 
  Component:               |     Version:  FFADO 2.0-beta6 (1.999.36)
 Resolution:               |    Keywords:                            
Device_name:               |  
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Changes (by jwoithe):

  * milestone:  FFADO 2.1 => FFADO 2.2

Comment:

 I agree that this would be ideal.  This is tricky because different
 interfaces respond to control values in different ways.  Implementing a dB
 scale fader is therefore probably something which needs to be done on a
 device-by-device basis, or at the very least would require a device-
 specific translation layer.

 I should note that some devices do now (as of 2012) present dB-scale mixer
 elements (for example, anything which uses the matrix mixer widget).

 As for labeling the fader scale, again this would be great.  However,
 until someone produces a generic fader object (ie: one which can be
 dropped in to all the existing device-specific ffado-mixer panels) with
 built in scale labels I can't see it happening soon.  Due to a limited
 number of programmers, details like this are likely to be postponed in
 favour of more pressing things.  The fact that this ticket has remained
 more or less unchanged for 4 years is testimony to that.

 For the moment I'll postpone this to 2.2.  The concept does however need
 to be reviewed so we can work out whether this can be done in the medium-
 term.

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