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aleho / gnome-shell-volume-mixer

GNOME Shell Extension allowing separate configuration of PulseAudio devices
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/858/volume-mixer/
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Long device names are indistinguishable #140

Closed juliatuttle closed 2 years ago

juliatuttle commented 3 years ago

My laptop's internal sound card has a rather long name, and all of the sources and sinks it provides are prefixed with this name, so the various outputs are elided to an identical name and I can't tell them apart in the mixer:

sinks

I can think of a few solutions, listed in the order I'd personally prefer them:

  1. Let me give the outputs custom names in Settings, so I can rename "Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI1 Output" to "Speakers" since that's where it goes.
  2. Change how the names are elided in the mixer so I can see the end of the name. I think eliding in the middle would be preferable to eliding at the beginning, but I'm not sure.
  3. Make the full names visible as a tooltip when I hover over the elided names.

Any of these would help me, but I think 2 would be the most user-friendly. I'd be happy to take a whack at implementing it if you'd like.

By the way, thanks for this extension; it's a necessary UI feature since I regularly switch between (at least) two audio outputs.

For context, here are the full lists of sources:

and sinks:

on my laptop.

vismajor1 commented 2 years ago

I have the same problem, so I will add some more information. I have the Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 9. When i enter the command "pacmd list-sinks" I see all audio sinks. The long name comes from the device.profile.name = "HiFi: hw:sofhdadsp: sink" and device.description = "Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones" . So the Extension uses the profil name to create the name. But in the line device.profile.description = "Speaker + Headphones" would be the more useful name. But I also didn't find the location in the Extension to change this. image

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aleho commented 2 years ago

Sorry, I'm not going to fix any issues for older versions and reevaluate the use-case for this extension for 43.

vismajor1 commented 2 years ago

So this will be fixed at gnome 43? Nice, thanks.

aleho commented 2 years ago

That depends on how GNOME 43 is actually going to implement that in the quick settings.

vismajor1 commented 2 years ago

I understand. Thank you for the effort.

aleho commented 2 years ago

Just to be clear: if GNOME decides to implement it in a way I think I can improve with this extension I'll probably come up with a solution. Probably :D.

If they manage to provide everything I need I'll definitely stop trying to hack around and monkey patch layout issues and focus on the features that are actually useful.