[pulseaudio-discuss] sink_name's not used in UI tools?

[Chris Joelly]

Hi Colin and Maarten,

thanks for your replys and Col for your patch and UI improvements :-)

Cheers

On Die, Jul 07, 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 07/07/09 20:28 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Chris Joelly<chris-m-lists at joelly.net> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to display the sink_name's i gave using the load-modules
>>> directives in the default.pa file? and if not, is there a way to change
>>> the way these tools display the sink_name's?>
>>
>> It's actually the sinks description, not it's name, that is displayed
>> in the gui tools.
>>
>> You can change this by using the sink_properties argument on the
>> load-module line in default.pa, e.g.
>> sink_properties="device.description='My Preferred Name'". You'll need
>> the latest PA for this, probably the soon-to-be-released 0.9.16.
>>
>> It's even possible to assign an icon to each sink, to have even more
>> discoverability for the users of your audio setup.
>>
>> For more info you can browse back in the list archives for earlier
>> conversations about sink descriptions, it's a topic that comes up
>> quite a lot.
>
> For combined sinks the description will be automatically set, so even if  
> you do pass the device.description property it will be overwritten  
> immediately!
>
> In order to fix this you'll need to apply this patch:
> http://git.0pointer.de/?p=pulseaudio.git;a=commit;h=a007d4740f2afe2eef04acb7c1b6d8371e3417b4
>
>
> I'm also half-working on a GUI for managing combined sinks directly in  
> pavucontrol without having to hack about with default.pa so watch this  
> space :)
>
> Col
>