Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Desktop Linux users need these features: > > 1: Auto detect sound card > 2: Easily accessible volume controls > 3: Easy to define default sound card and route audio streams > 4: Easy to start mutiple multimedia apps and route the audio > 5: Easy to change from being a consumer user to a professional user and > back again. > > IMO 1 to 4 have been fairly well accomplished but step 5 is currently fubar. > > Pulse should detect if jack has been started and cede control of the > audio device. > Pulse should allow users the option of auto switching to the jack i/os > or using a different device. > Pulse should retain these configuration settings. > > Pulse should assume that when a user starts jack they want their audio > to be temporarily reconfigured and if that means routing the pulse > stream to /dev/null for a brief period then it should handle that > internally and maintain existing application streams. Once it has > successfully reconfigured to connect with jack or an alternate device it > can redirect the audio streams to the chosen output. > And for those of us running two soundcards (one for desktop, one for recording) it would be polite if I Pulse would refrain from touching the 'studio' card. Ever. R _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
