GNU bug report logs - #38172
fixing dangerous PulseAudio defaults and giving it a record type

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>, raingloom <at> riseup.net
Cc: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>, 39053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 38172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38172: WebkitGTK-based browsers: System volume suddenly maxed
 out when playing audio or video
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:48:01 +0100

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Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, den 09.01.2020, 21:48 +0100 schrieb Marius Bakke:
>> 
>> I have a preference for making this field empty initially to have a
>> 1:1
>> compatibility with the current PA client and daemon configuration
>> (i.e. nothing).  Then a follow-up patch can add this new
>> configuration,
>> perhaps with an explaining comment.
> Fair enough.  This would mean I'd have to split 0001 into two, but
> okay.

Excellent.  :-)

>> Does it make sense to have default-script and system-script default
>> to
>> (file-append pulseaudio "...") and avoid the conditional altogether?
> The idea behind it was to have the script itself in the code rather
> than asking users to construct a mixed-text-file, but I'm fine either
> way.

Right.  I just have a preference for the default being "up-front",
instead of magic hiding behind an #f.  :-)

There's also LOCAL-FILE and PLAIN-FILE, which are more "obvious" than
MIXED-TEXT-FILE.

It could be useful to support plain strings for users who don't wish to
much about with G-expressions though, hopefully users will send a bug
report if they find it limiting.

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