[Bug 218533] "Removed Sound Devices" popup appearing on a multi computer setup

[simon at margo.student.utwente.nl]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218533


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--- Comment #2 from  <simon margo student utwente nl>  2010-08-24 15:22:41 ---
I can confirm this.

my setup at home is a linux desktop/server which is always on and a laptop in
the living room, for more casual use. Some software I always run on the machine
that is always on, like thunderbird and kopete (which is where this message
comes up).

So I log onto the machine using ssh -X and start kopete there, the display is
usually the laptop downstairs. Whenever a new message comes in, kopete (though
probably not kopete itself, but a KDE lib it is using) gives a hard to
ignore/turn-off message:
"KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed"

It doesn't inform the user what is going on, so he/she can't fix it, which
makes it annoying.

Some questions that come up when I see this:
- KDE on which machine? (probably the X-client side, so the machine upstairs)
- removed since when?
- why is this a problem?
- how can I fix it permanently?
- should I somehow have automatically working sound over the network (that
would be nice ;-)

Solutions would include:
- not showing the message when the display isn't on localhost
- not blocking on the message
- providing more information to solve the problem
- automatically choosing a permanent solution and telling me where I can change
this via some non-blocking desktop message.

Cheers

Simon

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