[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 93855] Module restore restores volume and mute settings from wrong sink input

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93855

--- Comment #17 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to Leonard den Ottolander from comment #16)
> So when running three mpg123 streams as in my example, I mute all 3, then
> unmute 1, once one of the sink inputs gets restored it unmutes and I'm
> suddenly listening to 2 streams. Are you telling me that is by design?

That's the result of grouping sink inputs by the application. That works in
most cases, but doesn't work when you want to use multiple instances of the
same application simultaneously, and also want them to have independent
volumes. If you have good suggestions for better grouping that servers all use
cases, I'd be very glad to hear them. So far you have only proposed grouping by
the process, or not grouping at all, which unfortunately are not viable
alternatives.

I doubt there is any better default grouping possible. Probably the only
possibility is to offer some better tools for configuring the grouping. For
example, we could make it possible to say that sink inputs belonging to
application X should be grouped by the process, not by the application. So you
could enable per-process grouping for mpg123 and still enjoy properly restored
volumes for Rhythmbox etc.

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