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Re: [emms-help] suggestion re: emms-volume-pulse.el
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Yoni Rabkin |
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Re: [emms-help] suggestion re: emms-volume-pulse.el |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:18:47 -0500 |
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Mandar Mitra <address@hidden> writes:
> At the beginning of emms-volume-pulse.el, there's the following TODO:
>
> ;; TODO: it would be great if custom could have
> ;; choices based on pactl list short sinks | cut -f1-2
>
> I was thinking of patching the source to do this, and have a question.
>
> One possibility would be to always determine emms-volume-pulse-sink
> automatically. In that case, it need not remain a customisable variable any
> more.
>
> The other possibility would be to have two options for
> emms-volume-pulse-sink: either an actual number hardset by the user,
> or something like 'auto, which would require the code to figure out
> the sinks using pactl.
>
> Do you think it would be worth leaving this second possibility open?
I don't see the point of making it customizable if it is being
auto-detected since it is the most common case. But since it will still
be a variable it could always be hard-set by someone sufficiently
motivated.
Thank you for working on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Mandar.
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