'Twas brillig, and Jason Taylor at 24/09/09 03:19 did gyre and gimble: > 2009/3/25 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>: >> 'Twas brillig, and Jason Taylor at 24/03/09 23:59 did gyre and gimble: >>> In the case of USB headsets I think a rule that says if a new local output >>> appears "move all streams (new and current)" to it option would cover 90% of >>> cases with an option to toggle the rule off? >>> >>> Thats what I have running anyway at it works as I'd expect >> Well with the priority lists and the fact it remembers previously plugged in >> devices, I'd say that it's not a major issue. If a brand new, never seen >> before device is plugged in, the real issue here is where does it go in the >> priority list? If it goes to the top, you get what you want here I think. >> The second time it's plugged in, it's already in the list in some capacity >> so the rules as to whether to move the streams across to it is pretty >> straightforward and clear. >> >> So if the implementation section of my proposal is accepted, it would be >> trivial to create a "module-new-devices-take-top-spot" module that >> implements this policy. > > Has any work/progress been made in this area? Yes actually. I've now completed (well, not really tested yet!) my module-device-manager which implements a basic version of this approach. Nothing fancy, but the priority list of devices and a simple API to move devices up and down it is done. This list works on a per-role basis. I've also started working on patches to Phonon/KDE to integrate support there. See the bottom of this message on phonon-backends mailing list for some more background http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/phonon-backends/2009-September/000304.html and perhaps even this (now a bit old) post: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/06/whats-cooking-in-the-pulse-pot/ 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/]
