[pulseaudio-discuss] Per-application volume glitching, and an idea for multiple channel volume control

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 08.01.09 17:26, Jud Craft (craftjml at gmail.com) wrote:

> Regarding the "always visible event slider":  that's very good for the
> system events, but the problem comes when we install programs that do
> not subscribe to Pulseaudio's event categories, but still play short
> event-like sounds.  (ex., Skype).  Some sort of minimum timeout for
> removing a stream, even after it's finished playing perhaps (ex., all
> streams stick around at least 30 seconds before disappearing) could
> remedy that.

I think the proper fix for this is to make those apps tag their sounds
as "event", not adding a kludge to pavucontrol.

Lennart

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