Re: [gnome-love] Retrieve sound settings

[Juan Rafael Garcia Blanco <jgblanco mail gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 19:28 +0200, Juan Rafael Garcia Blanco wrote:
> > Thank you Bastien. Actually I don't want to get the volume level, just
> > if some sinks are muted. My intention is to disable sound settings
> > controls in an application if gnome sounds are muted. Then I should
> > read PulseAudio documentation to figure out how to do this. Thank you.
>
> I wouldn't touch the application's settings. You don't want users to
> have to unmute/re-enable the event sounds to tweak their preferences
> only to disable it again.
>
> See Empathy's preferences for how you should show the sound preferences
> (usually, it's only a checkbox for each type of event).
>
> Cheers

Thank you for your reply. That's quite funny actually hehe. My
intention was to implement this behaviour in Empathy to deal with the
situations described here
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567106 . Anyways, I think I
will continue investigating around this because I'm a newbie and I
think that's good for me; I don't really care if this behaviour is
included in Empathy.