'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 05/01/10 15:03 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 05/01/10 14:54 did gyre and gimble: >>> Yup and the general decision that this approach is "a good thing" and >>> something that should be exposed to users. I know Lennart doesn't like >>> the idea of this being something users have direct control over, but >>> it's something I hear people asking for over and over. Perhaps it's just >>> because the automatic approaches don't work, full and there are other >>> ways but I quite like the transparency and relative simplicity (i.e. >>> users can easily grasp how it works as opposed to black magic hidden >>> foo) this approach offers. >> >> Nah, the automatic scheme I have in mind has not been tested >> yet. Right now we store no history of previous settings that could be >> used when the newest setting cannot be applied because a device is not >> plugged in or suchlike. So what I have in mind is simply have a stack >> of choices. Whenever a user makes a choice the stack entry for it is >> put on top. If it existed before it is thus removed from the stack >> first and moved to the top. If it didnt exist it is created newly. >> >> That way the user can easily configure the order of devices simply by >> moving streams if the order is wrong and that's it. No complex UIs for >> that. > > Ahh right yes. Too many discussions fly about for this tiny brain! > > Hopefully the actual database in the m-d-m is sufficient for this and > all that's really needed is an additional module to manupulate it > automatically..... For role based sink moves this wouldn't even conflict > with the KDE approach - it's just a simple GUI like pavucontrol (which > doesn't support role based sink moves yet) would have the effect of > promoting the destination to the top of the list... > > Cool. (erm, obviously the m-d-m database stores only role-based priorites... I guess it could be expanded to store application based priorites too - like m-s-r. 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/]
