[pulseaudio-discuss] Sink for event sounds? WAS: paplay - sound roles?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 05/01/10 14:54 did gyre and gimble:
>> Yup and the general decision that this approach is "a good thing" and
>> something that should be exposed to users. I know Lennart doesn't like
>> the idea of this being something users have direct control over, but
>> it's something I hear people asking for over and over. Perhaps it's just
>> because the automatic approaches don't work, full and there are other
>> ways but I quite like the transparency and relative simplicity (i.e.
>> users can easily grasp how it works as opposed to black magic hidden
>> foo) this approach offers.
> 
> Nah, the automatic scheme I have in mind has not been tested
> yet. Right now we store no history of previous settings that could be
> used when the newest setting cannot be applied because a device is not
> plugged in or suchlike. So what I have in mind is simply have a stack
> of choices. Whenever a user makes a choice the stack entry for it is
> put on top. If it existed before it is thus removed from the stack
> first and moved to the top. If it didnt exist it is created newly.
> 
> That way the user can easily configure the order of devices simply by
> moving streams if the order is wrong and that's it. No complex UIs for
> that.

Ahh right yes. Too many discussions fly about for this tiny brain!

Hopefully the actual database in the m-d-m is sufficient for this and
all that's really needed is an additional module to manupulate it
automatically..... For role based sink moves this wouldn't even conflict
with the KDE approach - it's just a simple GUI like pavucontrol (which
doesn't support role based sink moves yet) would have the effect of
promoting the destination to the top of the list...

Cool.

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