Created attachment 153201 [details] Device list in settings Hello, on my PC I have an HDMI monitor with speakers or the headphones: 2 output devices. Despite this, the audio settings shows a very long list of devices (5.1-7.1, hdmi 1-2-3-4-5) as you can see in the attachment. Can you please consider to add an option to hide some devices? It shows tons of devices I'll never use and I would like to have the only 2 devices I use, for easy management. The same long list is shown also in the audio icon in the tray bar. Thanks a lot. Operating System: KDE neon 5.26 KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-52-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Since this long list is only present in a combobox--and hence not visible by default--what's the harm in always leaving them all visible?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Since this long list is only present in a combobox--and hence not visible by > default--what's the harm in always leaving them all visible? The same list is shown also in the volume widget from the tray bar and it's pretty long. Anyway, this is not an issue, but 1) I don't understand why KDE shows this long list. Cinnamon, which I used before KDE, never showed this long list on the same hardware. 2) I don't know why it shows 5 HDMI output when I've only 1 HDMI monitor 3) When my parents try to switch the output they are confused by that 17 entries long list. I made this request to keep KDE simply and easy to use also for non-expert users (most of the entries are useless in my case and I would hide them). Anyway, this is just a feature request so feel free to close it if you think it's not useful, if it's hard to implement or I'm the only one reporting this :-)
I don't think allowing to manually hide things makes things any easier. On the contrary, it adds yet another moving part to the UI and thus makes it more complex. The combobox already filters out entries that PulseAudio reports as unavailable. The problem here is that PulseAudio marks things as available even when they don't make sense (HDMI + Analog Stereo Input is technically active because it has an active microphone, but it's not useful). That's https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1250
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #3) > I don't think allowing to manually hide things makes things any easier. On > the contrary, it adds yet another moving part to the UI and thus makes it > more complex. > > The combobox already filters out entries that PulseAudio reports as > unavailable. The problem here is that PulseAudio marks things as available > even when they don't make sense (HDMI + Analog Stereo Input is technically > active because it has an active microphone, but it's not useful). That's > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1250 Thanks for your reply and for reporting the pulseaudio issue that results in this behavior in Plasma too. You can close this ticket if you want. Thanks both for your help