When activating the context menu, there is no checked action to "highlight" which device is the current one, I request u create an checkable action group for these actions so the user can read which is the current device used by the recording stream. Reproducible: Always
I'm certainly not going to be the one to implement this as I feel kmix is totally the wrong place. The way KDE configures which audio device for which kind of application is with priority lists under the Phonon device settings. In theory you should pick the desired input device for the Telephony category (unfortunately mine isn't working well just now for other reasons so I can't look up the exact terminology and/or give a screenshot). Individual stream->device moves as enabled by the context menu in kmix override the category settings which may confuse users over time. This is why this functionality is quite hidden away in kmix. If you use Skype again, use the menu in kmix to move the stream back to the "default for category", then use the menu in kmix to open up the audio device settings (which will load systemsettings) and then use the priority lists to sort out your preferences do things still work OK for you? If so, then feel free to close this bug :)
Oops! Regarding the above comment, I didn't actually read the description properly before replying but replied in the context of what I presumed you had written due to half reading the other, original bug! Bad me! So the reason the device is not shown is due to the fact that routing is, by default, defined by category of application rather than individual application. This is why I don't want to tick the device as this might make the user *think* they are using a specific device for this stream rather than relying on it's category. In theory it *should* be possible to tick the "Default device for category" option at the top by default and only tick the device sepcific options when this is overridden. In theory this would be quite nice and I wouldn't oppose it. I likely still don't have time to implement it however so.... patches welcome ;)
Comment #1: Works! thanks ;) Comment #2: I will see if i can do something ;) Thansk for the answers!
I guess we can now close this issue as kmix seems no longer the prefered kde sound mixer (not installed anymore on my distro). Looks like plasma sound plasmoid is fine enough.