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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: Plumbers: Please split audio topics into separate
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:19:46 +0200
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On 08/07/2012 10:35 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> New topic suggestion:
>>
>> Simplifying volume setting on startup/shutdown
>> ====================
>> Currently, on a normal desktop session, volume is set four times on
>> startup - initally by the kernel, then by alsactl, then by PulseAudio in
>> the DM session, then by PulseAudio in the logged in session.
>>
>> When shutting down, both PulseAudio and alsactl saves volumes to restore
>> them later. And then we also have suspend and hibernate to consider, and
>> that cards can be plugged in at any time.
>>
>> First, isn't this quite complex for something as simple as setting
>> volumes? Second, can we facilitate new features, such as 1) having a
>> "set this volume as default, for all users, on startup" button in the
>> volume control, or 2) "allow the DM user to introspect different users'
>> volumes"?
>> ===================
>>
>> This is mostly a problem statement. I don't have a good proposal for how
>> to simplify it.
>
> OK, could you create a blueprint with that content?
> Then I'll inform plumbers committee about the addition as another
> (5th) slot at first.  Then we can rearrange topics in 5 slots.

Ok, new blueprint added as 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lpc/+spec/lpc2012-audio-simplify-volumes


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