Am 2016-08-21 16:16, schrieb Mark Gaiser:
Hi,
Disclaimer:
Specially on this list i tend to jump to conclusions or come across as
rude at times. I'm trying to be constructive here with a "what would
the user like best" point of view.
The background for this topic started ~2 years ago. I tried to get my
USB headphone to work with PulseAudio, but somehow it didn't work as i
would expect it. That caused me to start a mailing list thread on
pulseaudio-discuss which you can read here [1]. The issues were
identified, but PulseAudio was at fault at that point in time.
What i wanted: plug in a USB headset and sound will be redirected
there. Unplug it and the sound would redirect to wherever it was
before.
That's certainly not what I would want. For me the USB headset is an
additional device I want to use for certain use cases. E.g. phone calls.
But it does not mean that it should result in the audio being redirected
there. This is especially important for everybody who uses headphones
for only phone calls. The last thing I want to have is my ears explode
because the music gets suddenly redirected to the headphones I just
plugged in for a phone call.
While I understand that your use case is different, it doesn't mean that
this is something which should be changed. Our two use cases are mutual
exclusive. Neither your nor mine does say anything about what should be
the default.
Thus I think David's idea of making it configurable would be a good
compromise.
Cheers
Martin
