Hi Dani, Very nice idea !The only problem I see is that jack-sensing has not properly landed in pulse. Therefore within userspace (kernel speak:) it is very difficult to determine whether headphones are plugged in or not at the software level. It all depends on the driver. And if you have had any exposure to audio driver design on linux you will know that it is non-conformist (and that's being kind !).
It is possible however to easily determine a USB headset through pulse (monitor for sinks appearing and disappearing and do some sort of fuzzy match on the sink name and properties).
Conor On 11/11/10 19:11, dani wrote:
today ubuntu indicators probably replace the old notification area, and this is great!!. But we must to do it indicators more intelligent. We must ensure that it can do anything humans need. One of the shortcomings i can find is that heardphones not indicates. i create some mockups of how it could fix, hope you like them. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/heardphones% 20indicator%20%28daniel%20planas%29 PD: i write on maverick incoming because natty isn't open yet.