Bug 462107

Summary: Show sink names
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma-pa Reporter: tobias
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate, nowrep, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Pulseaudio applet

Description tobias 2022-11-21 21:46:22 UTC 
SUMMARY
Just like pavucontrol the applet and the settings menu only show the device names and not the sink names.
This can be confusing, if you have multiple devices of the same type.

SOFTWARE VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.0.9-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA
Pulseaudio: 16.1-3


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

See also:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pavucontrol/-/issues/136
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-11-30 00:17:37 UTC 
Can you attach a screenshot that shows the issue?
Comment 2 tobias 2022-12-01 22:50:07 UTC 
Created attachment 154209 [details]
Pulseaudio applet

You can see multiple "null-sinks", and I gave them specific names, but the names are not shown.
Comment 3 Harald Sitter 2024-10-03 23:41:47 UTC 
Why can't you give them descriptions?
Comment 4 tobias 2024-10-04 17:59:31 UTC 
(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #3)
> Why can't you give them descriptions?

1. It works, when I set "sink_properties=device.description=null-name1" then "null-name1" is shown instead of the device name. So thx for the workaround.
2. To the "why" part, why should I assume that setting the description will change the name? This is not intuitive.
Comment 5 Harald Sitter 2024-10-04 18:06:15 UTC 
Yeah, that's just how pulseaudio is. name is a unique identifier. description is the actual pretty string that gets displayed