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

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 14:59 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 31/12/09 12:14 did gyre and gimble:
> > 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?).
> 
> Indeed, but then again if you "moved" the event "role" to A and then
> disconnected it, it would be up to module-rescue-streams to relocate it
> appropriately too which again, may not be the one you want... so the
> problem still exists in this scenario too...
> 
> Yet another argument for role-based, priority list of preferred
> devices.... (e.g. how I've made module-device-manager work with the KDE
> UI - FWIW, the setup you want is /probably/ working fine under KDE with
> my integration patches and PA 0.9.21...)

Yes, from what I've read on your KDE work that may be the case.
Unfortunately I'm quite tied to gnome =).