[Maniphest] [Commented On] T5412: Improve Plasma PA usability

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

broulik added a comment.


  > No button to open the related KCM.
  
  Could be fit next to the tab bar, I suppose.
  
  > Device icons are ambiguous or wrong:
  
  That's unfortunately mostly due to a limitation of PulseAudio, it doesn't even distinguish between HDMI and DisplayPort…
  
  > No switches to quickly change the default output directly from the applet. […] Default to not change streams on newly connected inputs/outputs is maybe not the right default.
  
  Definitely. We have this option now but for some reason we didn't make it the default. When I plug in my TV I want everything to go via HDMI. Period. KScreen does a phenomenal job nowadays to remember and/or choose sane defaults but then you end up having to mess with sound settings anyway.
  
  > There are currently two KCMs,
  
  The Phonon KCM should die imho. We need to bring over the test sound feature and then it can go for good.
  
  A couple of observations/suggestions I may add:
  
  - The Applications tab in the plasmoid does not have a "There's nothing playing right now" indicator, leaving to an empty page
  - The "Notification Sounds" pseudo-stream does not show up in the applet
  - The applet should remember last used page (e.g. there are people that prefer having the Applications tab by default but on Plasma restart this is reset)
  - While I appreciate the drag and drop to move between streams feature, I still find myself trying to use a non-existent context menu for that
  - It would be lovely to indicate the "corked" status of a stream on the Applications tab, too, so you can also see there which app is actually currently playing something (similar to what task manager does - might need a new icon as we would end up with three speaker icons on the same stream otherwise ;)

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/T5412

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