Bug#548611: gnash: please add a configuration setting for initial volume level

Francesco Poli frx at firenze.linux.it
Thu Sep 2 19:22:47 UTC 2010


On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:34:53 +0200 Gabriele Giacone wrote:

[...]
> On 09/01/2010 10:26 PM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > I have been thinking about something similar, but... well, let's admit
> > it: it's gonna be *deadly unpractical*, as soon as you begin repeating
> > this procedure for each box you administer and/or use!   :-(
> > 
> > I don't even dare think how I could *document* this procedure in my
> > notes!   ;-)
> > 
> > A simple line in a configuration file would be much simpler, much more
> > practical and understandable.
> > But I am sure you are well aware of that!
> 
> Yes I know. Indeed I call it "workaround" not
> "solved-we-can-close-this-bug" ;) It's just an easy way
> to do what we want to do: start to watch yt videos at our favourite
> volume level and don't accept flash cookies at the same time.
> Given your appreciation, I'll downgrade it to "bad-workaround" :)

Make no mistake: your suggested "bad-workaround" is appreciated anyway,
as well as all the help from you in understanding this issue more
deeply!    :-)

[...]
> A demonstration, if needed, would be playing yt app with other players.
> I did it with adobeplayer (swfdec has just been removed from Debian and
> lightspark is still too young) and I will not spend time on explain
> that. It behaves in the same way, flash cookies and config under
> ~/.macromedia, 100% at the first access et cetera.

Sure, I am not saying that it is easy to implement or that every other
Flash player around has got this feature.

But, ya know, Free Software can and must be better than proprietary
software!   ;-)

[...]
> I don't know how much your request will be taken into account and how
> much it's easy to implement. We'll see.

Great, thanks a lot for investigating this bug and for forwarding it to
upstream!
Now let's just hope it will not be too hard to implement soon!   ;-)

Bye, and thanks again for your kind assistance.

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