[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 2/4] move stream after default sink is changed.

[Hui Wang]

On 2018/12/23 上午2:57, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-12-15 at 14:48 +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
>> On 2018/12/13 下午5:16, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2018-11-05 at 09:47 +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
>>>> When default sink changes, the stream should be moved to new
>>>> default_sink too.
>>> Except if the stream's preferred sink is the old default sink.
>>>
>>>> If it is user to call change default function,
>>>> all stream will move to new default sink unconditionally; if it
>>>> is not, will check if stream binds to old_default_sink and the
>>>> active_port staus of old_default_sink, then it will move the
>>>> stream conditionally.
>>> Why does it matter if the default sink changed due to user request or
>>> some other reason? I don't think streams should be moved
>>> unconditionally when the user changes the default sink.
>> Supposing  the sink0 is hdmi, sink1 is analog-speaker,  and a music is
>> playing on sink0 (default_sink is sink0),  if users select the
>> analog-speaker from UI (gnome-sound-setting), the sink1 is default_sink
>> now, and the music should be played on sink1.  If the streams don't move
>> to new default_sink unconditionally, I have no idea how to let music be
>> played on sink1 here.
> I don't see what the problem is - streams should by default move to the
> new default sink, but if the user has at some point manually moved a
> stream to sink0, making sink0 the preferred sink, then that stream
> shouldn't be moved automatically. If the user doesn't want to keep that
> old setting any more, they can move the stream manually to sink1, and
> since sink1 is the default sink at this point, the preferred_sink will
> be unset, so that stream will from then on behave like all other
> streams.
OK, got it.  thanks.