Ticket #186 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

pavucontrol should show the name of the sinks

Reported by: kritzstapf Owned by: lennart
Milestone: Component: pavucontrol
Keywords: sink name not shown Cc:

Description

Using multiple remaps or other things on the same device, the description of the sinks will be the same in pavucontrol. ("Remapped ALSA PCM on surround71 (CA0106)" in my case)

Including the sink_name in the format-string would be more usable as theres no need to guess which sink is the right anymore.

Attachments

show_sink_names.diff (1.7 kB) - added by kritzstapf 4 years ago.
quick fix

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by kritzstapf

quick fix

Changed 4 years ago by lennart

  • status changed from new to assigned

Uh, pavucontrol from a couple of versions showed the name. But I removed them because they where quite user unfriendly to deal with.

Without overloading the UI with too much uninteresting stuff, it might make sense to show the device name in a tooltip, though.

Changed 3 years ago by thomasa88

I would too prefer the name showed directly, as having only description shown when choosing a sink is not very informative when there are four called "Remapped ...". Also it would be very nice, for the same reason, if the playback and recording tab could show the names too, although that seems to be harder to do (getting module from id, parsing name from arguments?).

Lastly the order "name (desc)" is in my opinion more handy.

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