GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 593752
Make it easy to switch to transient devices
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:02:41 UTC
Created attachment 142202 [details] [review] gnome-volume-control-applet add select sink sub-menu patch In cases where You have multiple audio outputs, like built-in sound card and bluetooth headphones, there is need for a easy and fast way to switch to the selected sound output. Added patch is gnome-volume-control-applet modification adding sub-menu in the gnome-volume-control-applet menu when You have more than one sound output. Here You can see screenshot of this patch in action: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/225762/select-sink-submenu-screenshot.png
This is a good idea, but it's not how we'd like to see it implemented in the future. We'd like to see the default outputs be selected depending on role, rather than for all the roles (as we currently do it). So we'd have a way to select which output for which role in the main preferences, and have a plugin for the gnome-bluetooth wizard asking us whether we want to make this device the default for telephony, or music roles. Prudhvi (Prudhvi_Tella@Dell.com) has been working on that recently I believe.
Bastien Nocera: Is there any place where i can look at detailed/additional information about Your future vision? Any discussion/blueprint or anything else...?
(In reply to comment #2) > Bastien Nocera: Is there any place where i can look at detailed/additional > information about Your future vision? Any discussion/blueprint or anything > else...? I'm afraid not, still need to do a post about our discussions about this at GCDS. If you're interested in working on the feature, we'd need to first add backend code to set sinks and sources as defaults for specific roles. The code would live in gvc-mixer-stream.[ch] and the sub-classes of it. We could then write both the gnome-bluetooth plugin and add (read-only) information about the roles to the UI. Still need to figure out how to present the setting of defaults, but that's 3 relatively simple tasks broken up.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Bastien Nocera: Is there any place where i can look at detailed/additional > > information about Your future vision? Any discussion/blueprint or anything > > else...? > > I'm afraid not, still need to do a post about our discussions about this at > GCDS. It would be very interesting. When it is ready, can You please post a reference here?
*** Bug 592833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 611939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mass move to gnome-control-center.
Mass reassign, sorry for the noise.
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