On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:20:21 Colin Guthrie wrote: > Hi Lennart, > > OK, so attached should be a screenie of the KDE settings window. > > As you can see, the idea is to list all the various detected h/w and > allow them to be prioritised accordingly. The categories are shown on > the left hand side, but each once shows the same set of "devices" > (albeit potentially in different orders!) > > As is clear it does show some devices that are not currently > attached/detected. > > So to make this work nicely with pulse, I'd need to be able to: > 1. Record the sinks seen and know whether they are currently alive or > not (e.g. for USB, bluetooth and network sinks). > 2. Provide a way to prioritise our sinks in a list. If the most > preferred sink is not available (and our stream is not specifically > playing on a given sink) it should automatically pick the next device > with the highest priority. > 3. Allow this priority list to be different for different > roles/categories. > or > 3. Find a way to have something at the phonon side control the routing > decisions in PA (e.g. by uploading rules etc) > > > What do you think is needed and what should I work on to get there? Do > you see any major roadblocks? > Hi Colin, Are you saying you will be working on adding pulse sinks to the Phonon configuration? If so Yay for you! Is this something you're doing as a specific Mandriva customisation, or will it find its way back into trunk phonon-land? I am about to make a decision on distros.... your answer to this question may help me decide :) Thanks, Mark > Col >
