PulseAudio switch-on-connect and device-manager modules

David Edmundson david at davidedmundson.co.uk
Wed Mar 21 17:13:11 UTC 2018


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Nate Graham <pointedstick at zoho.com> wrote:

> ---- On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:47:25 -0700 David Rosca<nowrep at gmail.com>
> wrote ----
>  > As already said by David Edmundson, it works correctly.
>
> When I suggested in 392103 that we enable switch-on-connect by default,
> you said we couldn't do that because it would break the Phonon KCM (your
> exact words were "the entire "Audio/Video settings" KCM (phonon) won't work
> anymore."). That doesn't sound like "it works correctly" to me. The fact
> that these modules are mutually exclusive, yet used by different KCMs seems
> like an issue, especially if it imposes technical blockers to changing a
> default setting, or even starting up that conversation.
>

I'll try explaining again.

Default outputs can be either:
1) Automatic
2) Chosen by the user

There is one PA module for automatic behaviour, there is one PA module for
user-chosen behaviour.

This switch acts as a toggle between which we do.
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