'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 10:57 did gyre and gimble: > 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? Well I've gathered quite a lot of feedback already, but please feel free to critique more! I think the comments on the blog article[1] and a thread on this list which I've long since lost of my gmane cache were the best references... i'll try and dig out the archive link to that thread when I have a sec. Col 1 http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/ -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
