Re: Planned "Sound Settings" improvements

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:46 AM, David Henningsson
<david henningsson canonical com> wrote:

> To give you some background, I've been working on PulseAudio patches for
> jack detection the last few months. Upstreaming of these patches are in
> progress and will be a part of PulseAudio 2.0. These patches also make
> PulseAudio expose more information, that makes it possible for us to make
> the Sound Settings UI more user friendly.
>
> The main point of the redesign is to remove the hardware tab, and have input
> and output tabs incorporate the information currently on the hardware tab.
> There should be one row for every combination of Port/Connector and Card,
> rather than today's practice of one row for every card and a combobox for
> "Connector". The point is that since the average user would think of
> "Headphones" and "Speakers" rather than "Internal Audio Analog Stereo", we
> should present Headphones/Speakers/etc to the user as the first thing he/she
> sees.

Getting rid of the hardware tab would certainly be a welcome
improvement. I was not at all happy when it was introduced. But my
understanding was that it was necessary because of limitations in
either hw or alsa. Have these been overcome, or how will pulseaudio 2
work around them ?