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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-05-17, Paul van Tilburg <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:17:13AM +0200, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
>> On 2010-05-17, Paul van Tilburg <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I have changed the same two values recently too.  I, however,
>>> matched totem's setup which is 10/30s.  Asymmetric?  Well yes,
>>> rewinding and forward winding are two different things.  Rewinding
>>> is to see something again you just missed, forward winding is to get
>>> to some position and that better not be too slow.  Maybe the latter
>>> is irrelevant if there are bookmarks.  But hey, it seems to be a
>>> personal preference anyway.
>>
>> The reasoning is sensible.  We already have the same kind of
>> asymmetric behaviour for the volume control.
> 
> Funnily enough, everyone using Elisa/Moovida perceives this as odd
> behaviour.  The rationale is that turning up the volume needs to be
> fast but toning it down in small steps? Or is this just done so
> that 

When this was implemented, the idea was to mimic the behaviour of the
gnome-volume-control applet. It is the opposite of what you write
though: one may want to decrease the volume quickly and then fine-tune
it by increasing it in small steps.

>> However I think Peter's patch is already a step forward, I'd still
>> like to merge it, whether it is with 20s/20s or with 10s/30s.  Let's
>> see if we can come to an agreement.
> 
> Yes, it's definately a step forward, one minute is a lot to have as
> most fine-grained.  However, IMO it's hard to get an agreement here,
> it's all about expectation here and this is often not shared.  Maybe
> 20/20 is fine and we need to propagate this to a setting?
> 
> Paul

Both pairs of values are fine by me, let's see what others reckon. And
Peter seems to be willing to write a more complete patch to make this a
configurable setting, which would be great!

Olivier