Discussion about module-device-manager change to module-switch-on-connect

[Mark Gaiser]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:58 PM, David Edmundson <
david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:25 PM, David Rosca <nowrep at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>>
>>> >
>>> > What i'd like for this thread is to consider loading
>>> > module-switch-on-connect by default (changing the line in
>>> > start-pulseaudio-x11) and thus consider removing
>>> "module-device-manager". It
>>> > would most certainly improve the user experience for those that have
>>> USB
>>> > headsets.
>>> >
>>>
>>> No, I am against this. There are users that prefers
>>> module-device-manager and also, more importantly,
>>> module-device-manager allows user to configure precisely which stream
>>> types to route where.
>>> What I plan to do instead (for Plasma 5.8) is to add config option to
>>> plasma-pa to use module-switch-on-connect instead (possibly by
>>> default).
>>>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I understand your opinion, but isn't this used by only a very small
>> number of people?
>>
>>
> How do you even set that up what you describe? If i look under Multimedia
>> -> Audio, i only see "Default" everywhere. I have - in this case - a
>> speaker plugged in (jack connection) and a headphone (also jack connection).
>>
>> I'm glad that you're willing to add an option for this. By default would
>> obviously be my preference, but just an option is very nice as well :)
>>
>
> FYI that option is now merged. Let me know if it works.
>
> Ohh, that's great! Thank you so much for this.
I will give it a test somewhere this week and report back.
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