Re:PipeWire 0.3.62
by jancsika on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:21AM
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> Should all sound now go through the headphones or not?
The correct answer to that specific question: as a sane default, all sound should now go through the headphones. That's a sane default on the Iphone, probably on Macbooks, and it also happens to be the one that at least a stock Gnome or Ubuntu desktop chooses. In fact I have trouble thinking of a saner default than that one!
Forgetting about sane defaults seems to be a common problem in FOSS communication. It's unfortunate, because describing something as unknowable can convince a new developer to avoid inspecting the code around that particular problem.
E.g., it took a long time for Gnome to get the sane default I describe above. I'd bet that lurking in the appropriate mailing list history is at least one didactic post from an audio developer explaining how we can never truly know what a user's preferred setup could be.
The correct answer to that specific question: as a sane default, all sound should now go through the headphones. That's a sane default on the Iphone, probably on Macbooks, and it also happens to be the one that at least a stock Gnome or Ubuntu desktop chooses. In fact I have trouble thinking of a saner default than that one!
Forgetting about sane defaults seems to be a common problem in FOSS communication. It's unfortunate, because describing something as unknowable can convince a new developer to avoid inspecting the code around that particular problem.
E.g., it took a long time for Gnome to get the sane default I describe above. I'd bet that lurking in the appropriate mailing list history is at least one didactic post from an audio developer explaining how we can never truly know what a user's preferred setup could be.