Re: [Utopia] soundcards in utopia

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:25 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It all looks very good.  I only have one question.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 15:40 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > The GNOME sound control-center applet could be the place to select what
> > soundcard and output to use for different types of sound inputs and
> > outputs (Sound events, Music/Movies, Audio/Video conferencing).
> 
> The global defaults definitely make sense in the control center, but do
> we want to additionally add all these special cases for different types
> of applications?  Wouldn't the audio/video conferencing settings (ie,
> use a headset instead of the built in speakers and mic) be more
> appropriately set in the application?

That was discussed before. We would need it for Totem, for Totem's
mozilla plugin, for Rhythmbox once it gets to use Totem's video widget,
and possibly more applications.

For A/V conferencing apps, I can think of Shtoom, GnomeMeeting, gaim-vv,
possibly a skype front-end, etc.

This seems like a broad enough defining that every app would fit in it,
with the possibility that they wouldn't use GNOME's settings if they
needed something more refined (I'm thinking of capture applications like
Cupid).

> Also, couldn't we use gnome-volume-manager for this?  I mean, it is a
> volume manager after all. ;)

Well, we wouldn't deal with the "volume"s themselves, but it looks like
we could use it for more than just data volumes.

I'm just throwing all these ideas together on the list so that they can
be discussed. I won't have time to implement it unless I get more time
to work just on desktop issues, but I didn't want the ideas to be lost,
and Matthew said he could be interested into making it an Ubuntu bounty
unless somebody gets to it before that.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>