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by spacebeer 1254 days ago
Or you could make a OS/DE for normal people, with an option to change audio output per program with 2 clicks, like KDE Plasma does.
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goodSteveramos 1254 days ago
Agreed. Web apps have no business knowing what my audio config is. Instead of the OS or browser implementing a working sound picker, every single website will have to do it and all but the big ones will do it slightly wrong. Google is positioning the web for them to take over the desktop.
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zamadatix 1254 days ago
It's more easily explained as always wanting your web conference call to use your headset even if normally you want the browser to use something else than as a replacement for changing your OS settings.

The web is constantly positioned to takeover the desktop though, has been for many years at this point.

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dsr_ 1253 days ago
IOW, it would be meet and proper for the browser to be able to remember sound settings per site, and bad to offer web pages that ability.
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echelon 1254 days ago
Absolutely they do! This makes it possible to develop and distribute your app on the web, which is much easier than supporting native downloads.
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