[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #863: assign different device.description when more than one sink

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#863: assign different device.description when more than one sink
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  Reporter:  skierpage  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
 Milestone:             |   Component:  daemon 
Resolution:             |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by coling):

 Yeah in an ideal world I'd have done the renaming via that UI but it would
 require some mechanism (i.e. API) in Phonon which in turn I could proxy on
 to PA, so not as trivial as it may first seem.

 Chances are that something made PA crash (likely in the module-device-
 manager code that I wrote!) and it then autospawned again (as it's meant
 to do) but would lack the nice modules that are loaded at login via start-
 pulseaudio-x11 and start-pulseaudio-kde.

 KDE support is certainly a whole lot better than it was. I've still got
 more features to add and obviously fix up any bugs etc.

 Aside from the name of the devices do you experience any other major
 issues?

 I have tried the Kubuntu live CD and while IMO it would be better if the
 Ubuntu Pulseaudio had even more of the stable-queue fixes (I'm not 100%
 sure what they do and don't have but I'm pretty sure it's not the full
 compliment), it did seem to work fine for me, even with some exotic
 devices and bluetooth headsets etc. which is nice.

 Personally I find that Xine sucks with regards to it's PA output and still
 far prefer GStreamer backend for that, and hopefully VLC backend will
 prove more reliable in the future than the Xine one.

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