[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 95104] New: KDE specific rule in start-pulseaudio-x11 should go

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95104

            Bug ID: 95104
           Summary: KDE specific rule in start-pulseaudio-x11 should go
           Product: PulseAudio
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: daemon
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: markg85 at gmail.com
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: lennart at poettering.net

Hi,

PulseAudio 8.0 introduced a vastly improved "module-switch-on-connect" which i
like to use in KDE/Plasma 5. However, switching input to other devies as they
get connected doesn't seem to work under Plasma 5. It works just fine under
GNOME.

So i investigated this issue a bit.
It turns out that "start-pulseaudio-x11" detects a full KDE session and does
some specific module loading:

    if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then
       /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-device-manager "do_routing=1" >
/dev/null
    fi

In my case that very line was breaking module-switch-on-connect. Removing it
made it work just as advertised in the PulseAudio 8.0 release notes.

I would like to ask to remove that line in the next release of PulseAudio.
Perhaps it had it's reasons to be there in the past, but i can't seem to find
any reason for that to still be needed. These days Plasma 5 also has a default
volume applet that is meant for PulseAudio management. In fact, kmix isn't even
part of the default install anymore (on ArchLinux at least).

Cheers,
Mark

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