[pulseaudio-discuss] Sink for event sounds? WAS: paplay - sound roles?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:27 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 31/12/09 10:40 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 08:44 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> >>
> >> Hmm, is it then impossible to move event sounds? Doesn't seem like a
> >> good way to do it.
> > 
> > Any comments? I can't find a way to move event sounds from my laptop
> > speakers to my BT headphone (and my soon-to-come USB audio card I
> > suppose).
> 
> Just set the device as the default/fallback and it'll be used for event
> sounds (as I said before).
> 
> Is this not flexible enough? There is technically no reason why we
> cannot enable this kind of moving, but I guess Lennart originally
> omitted it from pavucontrol for a reason so I would prefer his feedback
> before committing to anything.
> 
> Col
> 
Apologies for not reading your previous response properly, I was
assuming that my on-board MUST be defalt.

My main issue is that this is different from how any other stream is
handled. Imagine I have 3 sound output choices (a headset (A), on-board
(B), some USB sound-card (C)). For a normal app, I set a preferred sink
and it falls back to default, for example I'd always prefer it to be on
A and to move to B if that's not possible.

For event sounds, however, the only way to get it to be on A is to set A
as a default, then in the case A is disconnected, its a toss up whether
B or C gets event sounds (I'm sure there's some consistency, but it may
not be the one I want?).