First, thanks for taking time to comment. These issues are not
applicable to the pulseaudio source package but to the padevchooser
source package, so I'm reassigning. Cody and I recently completely
cleaned up the Applications>Sound & Video menu of the PA tools. See
http://trilug.org/~crimsun/Screenshot.png for a "before" glimpse. Note
that on current hardy only the device chooser (padevchooser) icon is
shown now; the remaining PA tools' menu items are masked (the changelogs
for padevchooser, paman, pavucontrol, and pavumeter contain the
rationale).
Regarding "server," "sink," and "source" - these are the terms that
GStreamer (and thus, GNOME) uses in the `gstreamer-properties` tool.
Perhaps instead of "sink" we could use "playback," and instead of
"source," "capture." In terms of only being able to select "default",
that could be hidden via Gtk-fu. Opinions on these points?
Regarding the manager - I don't know.
Regarding the volume control - this application allows you to migrate
streams across "sinks." It has been noted that the existing "volume
control applet" will remain in the notification area for hardy. There
are no current plans to bloat the existing volume control applet's code
to handle migration.
Regarding the volume meters - I don't know.
Regarding quit - I don't know.
Regarding preferences - completely agree. This will be patched out in
the next uploads.
To summarise: padevchooser wasn't designed originally as a UI-nice
(GNOME HIG-compliant) app. This is a problem, but I can't fix this
myself (since my preferences certainly are not representative of hardy's
potential userbase). Many of the points you've raised merit extended
discussion on the pulseaudio, gnome, and ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing
lists. I agree that the "tech speak" is horrid and that there are
unnecessary items shown in the applet. However, re-exposing the menu
items reintroduces clutter, and that's bad, too.
** Changed in: padevchooser (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: pulseaudio => padevchooser
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Status: New => Incomplete
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