[pulseaudio-discuss] Progress of 'dynamic default sink' or 'device preference list'?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:10 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 10:57 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:20 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 07:48 did gyre and gimble:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Now that 0.9.22 is finally out, I'm wondering what happened to what
> >>> Colin mentioned some time back about 'device preferences'. As I
> >>> understood at the time, assuming 3 possible sound devices (which may or
> >>> may not be plugged in):-
> >>> 1. New streams would be automatically sent to the highest priority
> >>> device on starting
> >>> 2. Streams which have been manually moved would stay where they've been
> >>> moved to.
> >>> 3. When another device which has a higher priority is plugged in, all
> >>> streams (except for those in 2.) are moved to it.
> >>>
> >>> This scheme was mentioned in preference to a generic "move all sound to
> >>> latest plugged-in-device" scheme, I believe.
> >>>
> >>> Are there any plans in this direction?
> >>
> >> Not done much on it TBH. Was wanting to discuss things with Lennart
> >> further as he never quite acked the approach (not the finer details
> >> anyway) and there are still some caveats to the approach (like dealing
> >> with apps that produce multiple streams where you want to control them
> >> independently - although I think that can and should be mitigated in an
> >> app specific way).
> >>
> >> I may just crack on an do it over the winter seeing as it's getting
> >> really cold now and worry about the finer details later.
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick response Colin. Would user-input as to the design
> > of this behaviour be helpful, or just a hindrance?
> 
> Well I've gathered quite a lot of feedback already, but please feel free
> to critique more! I think the comments on the blog article[1] and a
> thread on this list which I've long since lost of my gmane cache were
> the best references... i'll try and dig out the archive link to that
> thread when I have a sec.
> 
> Col
> 
> 
> 1 http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/
> 
> 
Thanks Colin, I'll definitely try and contribute ideas, at the least.
May I assume this ML is better for it than your blog? =)