Thanks for your feedback. Just to be sure that we are not talking about different things, the sound menu is the thing which pops up when I click on the speaker icon in the panel?
>This bug report is Incomplete, however, because it's not clear that it would >involve any work being done in the sound menu. How do you >know that that >would be the best way to present the feature? I think the best place for this feature is the menu shown in post #1 because that's the place, where I as a user would expect it to be. >What alternatives did you consider? Alternatives are the pulseaudio-mixer-applet and pavucontrol. They basically do the job, but there are several reasons why I don't like them: pavucontrol has problems with long strings like "ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller Analog Multi-Channel Main Output" because it adapts the window size to the length of the string, which can cause the pavucontrol window to go over the edge of the workspace which makes it very unfriendly to use. And as you noticed yourself, the pulseaudio-mixer-applet is not the prettiest thing to. But the main reason why I think this should be included in the normal sound menu is, that it would have a nicer, native look and that users don't have to install an extra application in order to use the functionality which is already given in pulseaudio. So at the moment, if I want to be able to control the output per application I have to use e.g. pavucontrol but I still have the sound menu in the panel, which is basically useless for what I want to do. >That someone who just wants to change the volume would be subjected to >pictures of circuit boards strongly suggests that this is not >the best way to >present it! The next step is for someone to sketch out half a dozen possible >interaction methods for the feature, listing >the benefits and disadvantages >of each. I completely agree. I also don't like the way it is presented in the pulseaudio-mixer-applet. If you want, I can try to make some mock-ups. >Separately, someone would need to devise a reliable way of generating >human-readable names for streams. Displaying anything >remotely like "ICE1712 >[Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel I/O Controller Analog Multi-Channel Main Output" in >any prominent place would be >crack. I also agree completely. This is also not solved in pavucontrol or the pulseaudio-mixer-applet. I don't know what the best way is to handle this. One way could be, to have a tab in the sound-preferences, where it is possible to specify a custom string, which will be displayed for that output device, but perhaps other people have better ideas. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718100 Title: Add possibility to change output device -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
