sound settings status update

[David Henningsson <david henningsson canonical com>]

Hi Bastien,

Just wanted to give you an update on how our work is going here. In 
short, Conor has written some code for the output tab; but the code is 
more of a proof-of-concept, rather than the final reviewable code. He is 
about to start rewrite/refactor most of this code.

How do I best keep you in the loop at this time? I guess I could take 
the proof-of-concept code and rebase it onto the current git master of 
gnome-cc, but you would still require additional patches to PulseAudio 
[1] for this to work, and for the full jack detection experience you 
would need kernel 3.3 as well. (This is assuming you're not interested 
in running Ubuntu 12.04 - in that case you can just enable the PPA Conor 
and I use for development to get the kernel and PulseAudio patches.)
Given these requirements, it makes most sense to try to target this 
feature for Gnome 3.6 (rather than 3.4).

If I understand Christian correctly, he's been in contact with Allan Day 
enough so that the two of them are reasonably synced up, and agreeing on 
the design.

--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

[1] 
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=diwic/pulseaudio.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jack-detection-1.x