PulseAudio Panel Plugin enhancement

[Filipp Andjelo]

Hello,

I am running in a similar problem all the time, so it's nice to have
something done about it. However, I guess it  will be complicated to
distinguish the icons on the panel, if you'd have many. I have
currently my internal PC sound, sound over HDMI and my headset
connected, this makes 3 audio devices, for which I'll have three
identical icons on the panel. I bet, I'll always pick the wrong one :)
Another problem could be, if s.o. has a lot more audio devices. I
imagine, that musicians could have, since they are working with all
kind of mixers and what not. I think, they would go crazy seeing the
panel full of same icons. What do you think about it?

Cheers,
Filipp



Am Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:31:41 +0000 
Von Piscium <groknok at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 03:07, Viktor Semykin <thesame.ml at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone.
> > xfce-pulseaudio-plugin has a cool feature of changing volume by
> > scrolling over the plugin icon. Although it gets not so handy when
> > there are more that one output devices plugged, it only changes
> > volume of the "fallback" device which is quite unstable if devices
> > are plugged in-out often. If I made a patch that provides an option
> > to have one icon per device, would somebody from maintainers accept
> > it?  
> 
> As a user I think it is a good idea!
> 
> I would welcome improvements to this plugin though not sure what is
> the best way to improve as I did not give it any thought. It does not
> work reliably in my use case where I have an external usb soud card
> and sometimes I pipe the sound through the audio on the main board,
> sometimes through the audio card. I use PulseAudio volume control too
> as the xfce plugin gets confused sometimes, but the PulseAudio control
> gets confused too!
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