[pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Jeremy Nickurak at 25/11/09 20:37 did gyre and gimble:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:48, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie 
> <mailto:gmane at colin.guthr.ie>> wrote:
> 
>     PA will always remember what your app has chosen. So if you play
>     something with an app for the very first time, it is assigned to the
>     fallback device (we know no better).
> 
> 
> Is this the case even if you don't manually select one? Ie, the first 
> time it's used, it uses the "fallback" device. The second time, does it 
> still go to the "fallback", or does it go to the same device it 
> "fell-back" to last time?
> 
> I'm hoping it's the former, in which case... what is the difference 
> between a fall-back device and a default-device?

Well, there is a save_sink flag we set when we are supposed to save the 
sink... it's a little confusing and I've not fully groked the code, but 
it should only be set when the user has specifically moved the stream. 
However, I'm not 100% sure that is the case right now.

I'd have to look at the code to answer 100% here, but certainly the 
intention is that the sink is only saved if the user has actively moved 
the sink (e.g. calls the appropriate API command).

Col
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