[pulseaudio-discuss] Automatically change 'Default device'?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 15/02/10 09:13 did gyre and gimble:
>> Wait no longer!
>>
>> http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/
>>
>> Col
>>
> A nice read Colin, thanks.
> 
> /me also wonders whether all these 'restore' options need to be made
> much more transparent. At the very least with a checkbox somewhere
> saying "save per-stream routings". I believe in the simplest use cases
> (internal laptop speakers or BT headset on the move, USB headset at
> home), it would be advantageous to be able to specify that stream
> routings should NOT be saved, but that a device preference should
> instead be used.

Well I think there are two cases here. With BT headsets we can use
something like module-intended-roles to automatically move phone calls
to the headset. This works currently and because it's an internal API we
can (and do) pass a flag with the stream move call to say "Don't save
this". Currently this would mean that the stream-resotre db's device
field is not saved, but the future version would be that it would
disable the auto-adjustment of the priority list.

The ability to not save is something we do not expose in the public API.

> Of course, this is up to those who write the code (and I believe the
> same thing could be achieved by NOT loading module-stream-restore). I
> know that it would cover about 90% of my personal use-case though.

With the above in mind re the internal ability to disable saving on a
per-move basis may push that 90% up to even higher :)

Col

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