AudioInfrastructure, general desktop hotplug daemon

[Matthew Thomas]

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Martin Pitt wrote:
|...
| One feature that is still missing in the Audio infrastructure
| implementation is to make it hotplug-aware. Now you can choose the
| default device in System -> Preferences -> Audio, but if you plug in a
| new device (USB headset or whatever) there should be a dialog box that
| asks you whether to make this device the default (and also allow you
| to call the mixer and some tests on it).

How about just making the most-recently-connected available device the
default? I think that would do what you want in 99 percent of cases,
without an alert. In the other 1 percent of cases you could open the
Audio preferences yourself.

(If I'm wrong about it being 99 percent, perhaps provide better use
cases in <http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/AudioInfrastructure>. "The user
should be able to plug his headphone set and get a notification of the
event" doesn't seem realistic; with the possible exception of you and
the others implementing the spec, I very much doubt that people plug in
a headset because they want to see the computer tell them that they've
just plugged in a headset.)

| If the device is unplugged,
| the previous default device should be restored.
|...

That would work under the rule above.

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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