'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 26/03/09 13:31 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, 24.03.09 12:27, Maarten Bosmans (mkbosmans at gmail.com) wrote: > >> Is there any particular reason that it is not possible to set the >> description when making a sink with module-remap-sink (or his friends >> module-combine, module-tunnel-sink, etc.)? >> It seems that the description is always derived from the master sink, but I >> would like to customize it, because this is the name that is shown in >> interfaces like pavucontrol. > > It has been a long time item ony my todo list to allow setting > arbitrary properties (including the description string) on all > sinks/sources from the module parameters. Should be relatively easy to > add but hasn't happened yet. Patches always welcome. I added this to the airport sink recently... is this the approach you'd take (it's a fairly direct "description="blah"" argument) or do you want something more generic that copes with more things? If you outline the approach I may take a stab. 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/]
