Lennart Poettering wrote: : On Tue, 02.06.09 10:56, Jan Kasprzak (kas at fi.muni.cz) wrote: : : > [ this is a repost of the patch - I have not received either positive : > or negative feedback so far. Please tell me whether this enhancement : > is worth including. The patch is against current git head of PA ] : > : > When I split the 8-channel output to four independent stereo sinks : > (as described in http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules), the new sinks : > are all visible in pavucontrol under the same label (which is : > "Remapped <the original sink name>"), so it is not clear which one : > user wants to use. One possible way is to fix pavucontrol to use : > sink names, the other one is to make description configurable : > in module-remap-sink. This patch implements the second approach. : : All modules in PA git now know parameters "sink_properties" which can : be used for what you want to do. Instead of passing : "sink_description=foo" you can pass "sink_properties='device.description=foo'" : which would have the equivalent effect, but also allows to set : arbitrary properties on the sink. : : Thanks anyway for your patch, it's much appreciated. OK, thanks for implementing the sink_properties parameter. -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Journal: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/blog/ | >> If we wanted to trade simplicity and kewl design for usability I think << >> we all know the URL of the Apple Store. --jmorris42 @LWN <<
