On 05/17/2013 11:28 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 11:24 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: >> On 05/17/2013 11:14 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: >>> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: >>>> A stationary computer usually has headphone jack(s) and line out jacks. >>>> In some cases analog-output.conf will be a subset of >>>> analog-output-headphones.conf, causing line outs to be unusable (because >>>> headphones are unplugged). >>>> >>>> This late in the cycle, this was the safest way I could think of to try >>>> to fix this for a particular computer. In later versions of PulseAudio >>>> we could consider making a dedicated line out path instead, and have >>>> proper jack detection there. >>> >>> A line out path sounds desirable indeed. Would you be willing to >>> implement that right away for the next branch? >>> >> >> I could do that, but to avoid losing focus on that we have a frozen >> version that needs releasing, I'd prefer pushing this one to both >> branches and then working on that once 4.0 is released. > > I'm fine with pushing the patch to both branches. Ok, pushed. > What I don't like so > much is that the proper fix is left to be done "sometime later". There's > no need to wait for 4.0 before the fix can be done in the next branch. Fair point, but I still think 4.0 is more important than "next", which is why I've spend today testing 4.0, rather than writing patches for "next". -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic
