<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hello there,<br/></div><div></div><div>I hope this is a good place to send my thoughts to, but any hints for places that would fit better are appreciated.</div><div><br/></div><div>Before raising my question/feedback some words on my typical user pattern:</div><div></div><div>I am using a laptop that I carry from home to the office. In the office, my laptop sits in my docking station;</div><div>and my headset stays plugged in that docking station too. When I am using my laptop outside of the </div><div>docking station ... I dont care about audio. When I put my laptop in the docking station, I want to use</div><div>the headset ALWAYS. </div><div></div><div>So, in the past, i would go to the "sound settings", select the laptop "internal audio" ... and change its</div><div>"profile" to "off". As a consequence ... </div><div></div><div>laptop in docking station ... internal audio is "off" ... my headset is used</div><div>laptop outside docking station ... no sound, unless I enable on purpose</div><div></div><div>But now, with 12.04 ... the "profiles" are gone. "Internal audio" is enabled all the time. I can mute it,</div><div>but whenever I un-dock the laptop ... and dock back, it forgets about the fact that I very much</div><div>prefer "headset" over "internal audio".</div><div></div><div>Consequence: EVERY time I put the laptop in the docking station ... I have to open the sound</div><div>settings and to configure stuff. The stupid panel wont even remember that I selected </div><div>my headset ... the last time the headset was there.</div><div></div><div>So my feedback is: taking away the "profiles" was a HUGE step backwards</div><div></div><div>My questions:</div><div>a) is there an easy way that would support my "usage pattern"?</div><div></div><div>b) is there a way to run the "gnome 3" sound settings panel from within unity?</div><div>(they still have "profiles" in there methinks)</div><div></div><div>c) sorry, to say that; but why wasnt it done it the right way anyway?</div><div>In that sense, the KDE way - KDE allows you to change the prefered order of audio devices as you want, </div><div>the system will remember preferences for all devices, even when they are not present at some point </div><div>(to be honest: KDE got it wrong in the sense that they show you zillions of audio devices, but hey, you configure it once, </div><div>and then you are good forever ...)</div><div></div><div>regards,</div><div>eg</div></div> <br><br><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td style="font-family:verdana; font-size:12px; line-height:17px;border-top:1px solid #000000">Ihr WEB.DE Postfach immer dabei: die kostenlose WEB.DE Mail App für iPhone und Android. <br><a href="https://produkte.web.de/freemail_mobile_startseite/"><b>https://produkte.web.de/freemail_mobile_startseite/</b></a></td></tr></table> </body></html>