Ticket #80 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

PulseAudio Volume Control fails to display names on Sinks/Sources Tab

Reported by: jrush Owned by: lennart
Milestone: Component: daemon
Keywords: Cc:

Description

The Sinks and Sources tabs in the PulseAudio Volume Control only shows the device description above each slidebar, instead of the device name.

A device description of:

ALSA PCM on hw:0,0

is not has meaningful to the user as:

laptop-speakers

Oddly, in the PulseAudio Manager program, on the Devices tab, both the device name and description are displayed.

Change History

Changed 5 years ago by lennart

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

The device name is intended to be something "technical". It is not necessarily something a user would want to read. For example: if HAL is used the sink/source names become something like "alsa_output.pci_1106_3059_alsa_playback_0".

The device name is for technical people. The device description is more useful for non-technical people. pavucontrol is nor non-technical people. paman is for technical people. Thus the current behaviour makes a lot of sense.

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