'Twas brillig, and Chris Hamilton at 07/12/08 15:38 did gyre and gimble: >> Again, (as per my other mail) seeing non-active sinks and apps will not >> currently be supported by the protocol (to the best of my knowledge) so >> to get full feature out of this interface. Hmm. I appear to have forgotten to finish that sentence above... :p > Yes, I was imagining a pavucontrol steroids, with a heavy focus on a > visual representation of what's going on (to make things quite easy for > beginners), and with the ability to drill as deep down into the guts of > things as possible. I'll try and put together some mock-ups over the > next week to show what I mean. Nice :) > And yes, modifying the protocol to be able to query for previous (but > not active) sinks and apps would be ideal, but can always come later. True. > Does the API allow querying for a list of plugins that are installed on > a server, with all of their metadata? (ie: name, description, parameters > plus default and valid values, etc) This would be something else that > would be quite useful in such an application. Yeah, paman does all that kind of stuff - look at the modules tab (both paman and pavucontrol get all their info via the PA protocol AFAIK). Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
