On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 20:55:10 +0100 Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > On 2013-02-09 19:31:28, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Please let me know how the discussion with upstream develops, since I > > am having a hard time in understanding their replies (this is not the > > first time, it seems). > > There won't be an option for that.
That's really disappointing. > But there is an "easy" workaround for > the problem: Create a shell script containing something like > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/gnome-mplayer --volume 20 "$@" > > called gnome-mplayer somewhere in your $PATH before /usr/bin. Also make > sure that software volume control is enabled. This workaround is a kludge! I know how to create launch scripts, but seeing upstream developers of a graphical front-end for a video player recommending that *each* user (with a need to easily configure the initial volume) create his/her own launch script with a hard-coded configuration value is really discouraging... :-( [...] > > Since there is a workaround and there won't be any other fix for this, > I'm closing this bug. I hope this helps. Frankly speaking, I am not happy with the way the upstream developers deal with bug reports coming from users. :-( -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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