[pulseaudio-discuss] Closing audio device and volume control

[Mads Kiilerich]

Lennart Poettering wrote, On 12/24/2009 05:47 PM:
> My recommendation is to fix you app not to keep the audio device
> open. That simply has the effect of wasting power.
>    

In that case, how is the user expected to control the volume etc for 
this application?

It seems like Pidgin does exactly that (through gstreamer), and that 
makes it hard to control the volume. See 
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2009-June/004101.html

Is this issue deadlocked as described on 
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2009-June/004108.html ?

/Mads