Yeah the concept of "default" or "master" is somewhat blurred these days
and IMO should be fully automatic in most cases (or at least have an
"Auto" tickbox before allowing manual overrides.
The reason I say this is due to the fact that Phonon has multiple
categories. The "Default" category makes sense in most cases but what if
you have Amarok (Music) playing some tunes? Your "Default" device might
not be your "Music" device, so should the media keys on your keyboard
control the Default device or the Music device in this case? I'd
personally suggest that it should control your Music device.

Sadly Phonon has no API to enumerate streams and which devices are
actively playing to allow kmix to make such decisions, so while I would
agree in principle that the "phonon settings" should be used, it's
likely far more practical to get said setting directly from PA (as with
"Phonon settings" are actually just pushed to PA with this kind of setup
anyway).

Now we're hoping that (eventually) we'll be able to redo the whole
routing system in PA thanks to help from some Intel folks using it for
IVI purposes. With this in place I think it would be the right time to
get this bit of kmix fixed up.

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  Select main channel in KMix didn't work as expected

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