On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:20 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 07:48 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi all, > > > > Now that 0.9.22 is finally out, I'm wondering what happened to what > > Colin mentioned some time back about 'device preferences'. As I > > understood at the time, assuming 3 possible sound devices (which may or > > may not be plugged in):- > > 1. New streams would be automatically sent to the highest priority > > device on starting > > 2. Streams which have been manually moved would stay where they've been > > moved to. > > 3. When another device which has a higher priority is plugged in, all > > streams (except for those in 2.) are moved to it. > > > > This scheme was mentioned in preference to a generic "move all sound to > > latest plugged-in-device" scheme, I believe. > > > > Are there any plans in this direction? > > Not done much on it TBH. Was wanting to discuss things with Lennart > further as he never quite acked the approach (not the finer details > anyway) and there are still some caveats to the approach (like dealing > with apps that produce multiple streams where you want to control them > independently - although I think that can and should be mitigated in an > app specific way). > > I may just crack on an do it over the winter seeing as it's getting > really cold now and worry about the finer details later. Thanks for the quick response Colin. Would user-input as to the design of this behaviour be helpful, or just a hindrance?
