[pulseaudio-discuss] giving custom names to devices

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 30.06.09 17:10, Vincent Legoll (vincent.legoll at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Colin Guthrie<gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> > 'Twas brillig, and Jost-Philip Matysik at 30/06/09 14:30 did gyre and
> > gimble:
> >>
> >> I managed to accomplish the renaming using a pacmd script run at login.
> >> It works, so it's definitely no showstopper, but it would be nice to
> >> have a GUI front-end for this.
> >
> > How about this:
> >
> > http://colin.guthr.ie/images/stories/pa-rename.png
> 
> Is the first picture a contextual popup button ?
> (opened with a right click on the output device's name ?)
> How is the user supposed to know that possibility is there ?
> The label is not usually an interactive widget, I think that
> would confuse users. Maybe add a mouseover effect to
> catch user's eye that there's something you can do with this
> label.

I don't think that renaming a device really needs to be exposed more
visibly than this. It is nothing people need to do every second
day. I'd be completely happy with Colin's current implementation.

Lennart

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