On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 22:59 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
On 08/14/2013 10:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
The user hit the mute key. Why would they expect *anything* to be unmuted?
Why should the userspace application, who just wants to lit a LED, have to care about a lot of other sound cards and interfaces and mute them, when the user does not care?
Because there's no interface for the userspace application to light an LED. Henrique has previously said that he doesn't want userspace to have arbitrary control over it, and I agree with him.
And what about multiseat setups? If a multiseat keyboard has a mic mute LED, do you think another user's mic mute state should influence the LED of your keyboard?
Once we see an external keyboard with a microphone mute LED, that's certainly something we can worry about.