Re: FESCo Meeting Summary for 20090424

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:40:29PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> said:
> > pavucontrol does profile switching, and does it in a very nice way,
> > thanks to the work done on Pulse during this cycle. But it doesn't do
> > input switching.
> > 
> > gnome-volume-control doesn't do profile switching *or* input switching.
> 
> If pavucontrol existed and worked better, why did we get yet another
> audio control written from scratch?  Why not just work on one of the
> many existing ones (like pavucontrol that already knows how to talk to
> PA)?

I wonder how hard it would be to add input switching to 
pavucontrol...then we could ditch g-v-c and the legacy mixers and keep 
the one pavucontrol that handles all the use cases...