Multimedia settings mysteries

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 22:33 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 2) The various audio categories all show the following list of devices:
> > HDA Intel (STAC92xx Analog)
> > default (lower-case 'd')
> > hw:0,0
> > Default (upper-case 'D')
> > PulseAudio Sound Server
> > <nothing> (i.e. an icon with no text)
> 
> There should be an entry saying just "PulseAudio" (the native PulseAudio
> backend) at the top of that list.

There wasn't.

> It appears to be missing, that sounds
> like a bug.

Indeed.

> Which Phonon backend are you using? The Xine backend is strongly
> recommended, the GStreamer one is very buggy.

It was GStreamer. I changed it to Xine and it's a lot better. In fact
after changing it I got the PulseAudio option in the devices list (it
wasn't there before) and moved it to the top.

I checked with a test user and the menu is rather different (no
duplicates or empty entries). Presumably this is the default and mine is
screwed up because of many succesive generations of KDE. So the question
is: do I need to trash my whole .kde config or can I just remove the
appropriate part of it?

(Stilll getting the wierd Kmix icon BTW).

poc