| Summary: | Feature Request: Native PipeWire graph control | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma-pa | Reporter: | tempqd <variable_valuables761> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | isma.af, me, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
tempqd
2024-04-11 19:46:31 UTC
It's a cool idea but this is may be too niche to consider. Most people don't have a use for something like this. If someone volunteered to implement it and came up with a UI that was really great, I think we might consider it, but until and unless that happens, I think we have to consider this out of scope, sorry. Very fair! I indeed had power users in mind (powerful when needed!). For future implementers' reference, I can think of a few simple use cases off the top of my head, although I have no idea how common/niche these are among most users: * Two people listening to the same PC with two different pairs of headphones (instead of sharing one pair of earbuds) * Playing an audio file during a voice call without having to share your entire screen * Excluding your music from a screen share/recording I do want to try to implement this myself at some point in the future, though it might prove to be too difficult for me. I am pretty happy with qpwgraph, and I don't see why would it need to be vendor-locked specifically to Plasma? It does a pretty good job at being a standalone application. I was just thinking about discoverability (people may not know it exists) and a more streamlined implementation built right into the interface. Could still download qpwgraph for more control either way. Or maybe we could add a small indicator saying that graph apps are available, like in https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/674 or the browser integration? > discoverability There is a dark side to that, as a built-in she'll feature would only be discoverable specifically for Plasma shell users. > Or maybe we could add a small indicator saying that graph apps are available I like that idea, yeah. Such integration would be nice. |