On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:10 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 10:57 did gyre and gimble: > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:20 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > >> 'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 01/12/10 07:48 did gyre and gimble: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> Now that 0.9.22 is finally out, I'm wondering what happened to what > >>> Colin mentioned some time back about 'device preferences'. As I > >>> understood at the time, assuming 3 possible sound devices (which may or > >>> may not be plugged in):- > >>> 1. New streams would be automatically sent to the highest priority > >>> device on starting > >>> 2. Streams which have been manually moved would stay where they've been > >>> moved to. > >>> 3. When another device which has a higher priority is plugged in, all > >>> streams (except for those in 2.) are moved to it. > >>> > >>> This scheme was mentioned in preference to a generic "move all sound to > >>> latest plugged-in-device" scheme, I believe. > >>> > >>> Are there any plans in this direction? > >> > >> Not done much on it TBH. Was wanting to discuss things with Lennart > >> further as he never quite acked the approach (not the finer details > >> anyway) and there are still some caveats to the approach (like dealing > >> with apps that produce multiple streams where you want to control them > >> independently - although I think that can and should be mitigated in an > >> app specific way). > >> > >> I may just crack on an do it over the winter seeing as it's getting > >> really cold now and worry about the finer details later. > > > > Thanks for the quick response Colin. Would user-input as to the design > > of this behaviour be helpful, or just a hindrance? > > Well I've gathered quite a lot of feedback already, but please feel free > to critique more! I think the comments on the blog article[1] and a > thread on this list which I've long since lost of my gmane cache were > the best references... i'll try and dig out the archive link to that > thread when I have a sec. > > Col > > > 1 http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/ > > Thanks Colin, I'll definitely try and contribute ideas, at the least. May I assume this ML is better for it than your blog? =)
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