TLDR: Make `gst_set_threshold_from_string ("", TRUE)` reset *all*
threshold settings, including those set by previous invocations of
`gst_debug_set_threshold_from_string`.
The docs say:
@reset: %TRUE to clear all previously-set debug levels before setting
new thresholds
What actually happens is it sets the default threshold to `ERROR`,
leaves the patterns in place and calls
`gst_debug_category_reset_threshold` on each category.
In effect, any category that is matched by a pattern gets reset to that
threshold if the app changed it by directly invoking
`gst_debug_category_set_threshold`. All other categories are reset to
`ERROR`.
In my opinion this parameter currently has little value, as the same
effect can be achieved by including `ERROR` (without a pattern) in the
string, as in `"foo*:WARNING,*bar:INFO,ERROR"`.
What I actually expect it to do is reset *all* threshold settings,
including those set by previous invocations of
`gst_debug_set_threshold_from_string`, starting off with a clean slate
for the patterns provided with the call.
Otherwise there is no API to do this, besides:
- Painfully removing patterns one-by-one via
`gst_debug_unset_threshold_for_name` *if* you know what the patterns
are.
- Adding a `*:FOO` pattern to affect all categories, which makes the
default threshold useless and practically leaks all the old
patterns.
In my opinion this also makes it fit better into the layers of threshold
config, which is:
1. Temporary:
- `gst_debug_category_set_threshold`
- `gst_debug_category_reset_threshold`
2. Patterns:
- `gst_debug_set_threshold_for_name`
- `gst_debug_unset_threshold_for_name`
- `gst_debug_set_threshold_from_string`
- `GST_DEBUG`
3. Default:
- `gst_debug_set_default_threshold`
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/605>
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