[pulseaudio-discuss] Changing default soundcard on attach/detach of soundcards

[Jeremy Nickurak]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:40, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> I really don't think this is wise. There are so many cases where this
> doesn't work. If you are in the process of plugging something in, you
> *expect* to have to take some action. You're in the mind set that you'll
> need to take action to make the device work.

Can't disagree strongly enough here.

When you plug headphones into your laptop, the sound switches from the
speakers to the headphones. No intervention. This should definitely be
the same case with plugging in USB headphones.

To get it right, pulseaudio's going to need some logic here, to make
sure the "fallback" is reasonable, even in the light of plug/unplug
events.

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