https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413602
Riccardo Robecchi <sephiroth...@hotmail.it> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Riccardo Robecchi <sephiroth...@hotmail.it> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> > - usability: the button screw up layout height, icons become huge and widget
> > are squeezed in a thight space: really ugly
> Already fixed in 5.18, sorry about that.
>
> > - functionality: if I plug in an external "Default device", the button looks
> > activated, but internal device is used instead. Must click on internal
> > "Default
> > device" button, then click external to have external device working
> > properly.
> Sounds like a bug. Let's use this bug report to track that issue.
I can confirm I am affected, too. I use multiple external DACs (I review audio
stuff for a living, so I constantly plug in and out new sound devices) and this
is what I have been experiencing ever since I started using Plasma.
> > - conceptual: user sets a device to be default only once: use cases are
> > fixed.
> > If user connects an external sound card it's simply because she wants to use
> > it, she wants it to be default. So she will go to Configure Audio (_Volume_)
> > once, or use the little and wise hamburger menu on the device widget.
> That's not quite true. This feature is also used to switch between devices
> when more than one are available. For example when I have a bluetooth
> speaker attached to my laptop, sometimes I want to switch back to the
> internal speakers for whatever reason, and then back to the bluetooth
> speakers. This feature makes it much easier to do than it was before.
I think he has a point in terms of language. "Default" is the one that should
be used as the predefined device, but not necessarily the one you selected.
"Default" is commonly used to designate the device which is used when no other
device is present, or if other devices are not working; it's often synonym with
"fallback". "Default" may indeed be confusing to users: "active", "current" or
other similar wording may be better.
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