Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] [PATCH] Sound Input only plugins?

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 05 avril 2005 à 00:54 +0900, Georgi Georgiev a écrit :
> maillog: 04/04/2005-15:30:36(+0200): Damien Sandras types
> > Le lundi 04 avril 2005 à 15:25 +0200, Julien PUYDT a écrit :
> > > Damien Sandras a écrit :
> > > 
> > > >Having to select two different plugins systems for input and output is
> > > >difficult for most users and hardly "usable".
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > That's why my idea "only one manager in the druid but two in the 
> > > preferences" isn't that stupid...
> > > 
> > 
> > That doesn't simplify the prefs!
> 
> OK, what about this.
> 
> The interface stays the same (prefs and druid). The user selects an
> audio plugin (but they don't know that they are in fact choosing the
> audio "input" plugin). If the selected input plugin can also be used for
> output, everything (interface-wize) stays the same and the same plugin
> is used for output. If the plugin does not support output, though, an
> extra pulldown is unhidden and the user can then select their output
> audio plugin.
> 
> Which also essentially means, that if the user does not have the DVaudio
> plugin installed, they will not see any difference in the interface.
> 


Excellent idea! If you can implement this, it will go as is in CVS
because that is really the best solution.

There is no need to present a choice to the user if it doesn't make
sense...
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