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Commit 6611ff9e authored by Nate Graham's avatar Nate Graham
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Filter out currently unused devices

Right now devices that have only a single unplugged port are visible in the applet and the KCM.
For all intents and purposes, these devices are useless as they are inactive and unused.
Therefore, let's filter them out so they're not distracting and confusing to the user. An option
to see them all again is provided in the KCM on the off chance that a person needs to configure
the volume or balance of an unused device *before* it's used.

This patch is principally aimed at people using hardware where PulseAudio represents multiple
input and output sources as separate devices rather than separate ports of the same device.
I asked the PA people about this and they said that for certain hardware, it's intentional,
and the correct approach is to filter out the unused devices over here [1]. So, that's what
this patch does.

Thanks to @nicolasfella for his help with getting the initial prototype working!

BUG: 422612

FIXED-IN: 5.20

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/913
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