better ALSA card name

[Matthias Kretz]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:38, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le mardi 9 janvier 2007 12:37, Matthias Kretz a écrit :
> > [...]
> > The alsa.name property is the name I would like to show the user to
> > select the audio device. Please review the string code (I'm used to C++
> > string classes...) and let me know whether the new property is ok, or
> > where to put the name instead.
>
> I wonder if it's necessary to introduce another property. I'd say that the
> name extracted looks like an info.product property and could probably be
> used. That said it would mean the device would be named for instance
> "Alesis io|2" instead of "USB Audio ALSA Playback Device" which means we
> loose the "Playback Device" information... In this case maybe completing
> the names to get something like "Alesis io|2 Playback Device" could be a
> good idea?

In Solid you're reading the alsa.device_id property for the name. For my 
devices the best name is to take "alsa.name (alsa.device_id)". Perhaps that's 
what's wanted in HAL - so alsa.device_id would be put into parenthesis and 
prepended by my new string.

See http://vir.homelinux.org/kcmphonon1.png for what this looks like. 
The "(ALSA)" part of the name is appended by the backend and should not 
appear in the name, I think. Also the "Playback Device" information normally 
is not wanted in the string shown to the user as it's a precondition whether 
capture or playback devices are shown.

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