[PATCH] maintain volume when switching outputs

[Andrew Fuller]

On 11/14/07, Matthias Kretz <Matthias.Kretz at urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Andrew Fuller wrote:
> > On 11/11/07, Andrew Fuller <mactalla.obair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So I took phonon for a spin today and found that when it switches
> > > output devices, the volume gets reset back to max (ouch!). Attached
> > > is a patch which fixes this for me. However, I know nothing about the
> > > internals of phonon, so I don't know how good/bad this fix (hack?) is.
> > > Perhaps rewire should trigger a graphChanged on its own?
> > >
> > > Anyhow, if there's a better fix, perhaps someone could point me in the
> > > right direction. Otherwise could someone commit this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Andrew
> >
> > Ok, so I realized the path wasn't included in my last patch. So here
> > it is again, this time from kdebase so it should be easier to apply.
>
> Thanks for the patch. The fix is correct. (BTW, this has worked before. It's
> one of the regressions introduced with the API changes done last time I was
> in Oslo.)
>
> > It also looks like this mailing list is nearly dead. Perhaps this
> > should be sent elsewhere?
>
> kde-multimedia is alive (but low-volume), but there's also
> phonon-backends at kde.org. This patch is on-topic on both lists, though.
>

Great to hear!  Thanks for committing the patch (and for the rest of
Phonon, of course)!