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Bug 317899 - Should adapt to changes of the default sound device
Should adapt to changes of the default sound device
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395420
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: mixer
2.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-04 08:41 UTC by Martin Pitt
Modified: 2010-01-24 01:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Martin Pitt 2005-10-04 08:41:02 UTC 
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu

The current mixer applet is a bit confusing: It apparently controls the mixer
levels of whichever card was the default at login, not the card which is the
current default sound card (which can be changed easily and on the fly).

So the applet should either always change the default sound card, or at least it
needs to make it clear which sound card it actually controls.
Comment 1 Ronald Bultje 2005-10-04 14:40:07 UTC 
I don't understand what you mean...?
Comment 2 Ronald Bultje 2005-10-15 16:17:49 UTC 
GNOME has no "central default soundcard choice location", what parts are you
talking about?
Comment 3 Martin Pitt 2005-10-15 17:05:34 UTC 
Re comment 2:
Oh, Ubuntu allows the user to select the default sound device in
gnome-sound-properties. I submitted the patch to the Gnome bugzilla, but it has
not found its way to upstream yet.

Re comment 1: How should I explain otherwise? I have an internal PCI card and an
USB sound card (a Logitech headset). When I plug in the USB device, and select
it as the default sound card (in ~/.asoundrc, or with Ubuntu's
gnome-sound-properties, then the mixer applet still controls the PCI card, so it
is essentially ineffective. OTOH it does not say anywhere which device it
actually controls.

So the behavior should be a little more user-friendly: either it should always
control the volume of the device I'm actually listening to, or there should be a
separate applet for every device I have.
Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2006-01-11 04:32:20 UTC 
Martin, do you have a bug number for the default sound device patch, so we can track them together?
Comment 5 Martin Pitt 2006-01-11 11:51:39 UTC 
> Martin, do you have a bug number for the default sound device patch, so we can
track them together?

This is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305907
Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2006-02-09 10:34:55 UTC 
Potentially a dupe of bug 167606
Comment 7 Ronald Bultje 2007-01-14 19:11:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 395420 ***