Review Request 127492: KCM: Add possibility to move stream to other devices

[Xuetian Weng]

> On March 25, 2016, 7:24 p.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Two questions:
> > 1. If there is only one device, are the comoboxes hidden (they should be)?
> > 2. If I change the default device, are all streams automatically switched to that device?
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> David Rosca wrote:
>     1. Yes
>     2. No, it just sets the pulseaudio default sink/source. It is then used as fallback device (when stream's device disappears, it will move to default device) and probably also for new streams.
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>     I also plan to make the global shortcut to change/mute volume and osd to only work with default device.
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> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     1. Good
>     2. A bit of a problem. Or rather, it means we have to re-think some things. The problem is that currently we make the more common scenario (just switching all audio to a different device) more complicated to do than the more advanced scenario (moving individual streams).
>     
>     I know that in theory, PulseAudio should be smart enough to just switch all audio to a newly plugged-in or switched-on device, but from my own experience I can say that this automatism doesn't always work.
>     So for example if I have my TV connected to HDMI, I want all audio to go through my speakers when the TV is off. When I switch the TV on, though, it's more likely that I just want all audio to go through it instead of having to switch individual streams.
>     Switching individual streams is a nice feature, but only useful for rather advanced setups. So we should keep it, but we need a way to move all output to a different device easier.
> 
> David Rosca wrote:
>     Sure, rerouting all streams to one device can be added. Any idea where to expose it in ui?

I also wonder, is it possible to route the sound to multiple device at the same time? If so maybe combobox is not enough.

Also I feel this feature is not a commonly used feature. I wonder if it is possible to hide it until user click on it, just like when you click on connection in plasma-nm, you'll see connection details in plasma-nm.


- Xuetian


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On March 25, 2016, 4:48 p.m., David Rosca wrote:
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> (Updated March 25, 2016, 4:48 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and KDE Usability.
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> Repository: plasma-pa
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> Description
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> Add combobox next to mute button with available devices.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/DeviceComboBox.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/SinkInputView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/SourceOutputView.qml PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/StreamListItem.qml 7f1d69e 
>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/StreamView.qml b08c87a 
>   src/kcm/package/contents/ui/main.qml 3360201 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127492/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> Screenshot_20160325_142736.png
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/03/25/06b2aafd-f05d-4140-933a-89fbc8ed7c5c__Screenshot_20160325_142736.png
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> Thanks,
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> David Rosca
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