[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 92493] gnome-shell: connecting to a phone through bluetooth shows microphone slider

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92493

--- Comment #1 from Bastien Nocera <bugzilla at hadess.net> ---
(In reply to Allan Day from comment #0)
> GNOME 3.16/Fedora 22: when I connect to my phone via Bluetooth, a microphone
> slider is shown in the system menu. This is a little disturbing: I've never
> used my phone as a microphone for my computer. I don't know why I'd ever use
> my phone as a microphone.

To use it as a headset for voice chat applications for example.

> It feels like the microphone is in use without my
> consent, and I'm being listened to.
> 
> I've been told that this issue is due to PulseAudio using the headset
> profile for phones by default, hence I'm filing the bug here.

We should default to the A2DP profile for phones, and switch to the headset
profile when an application wants to use the microphone instead.

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