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  • I understand what you’re getting at, but I feel like that’s doing a disservice to plasma. They absolutely can (software!) display what they want, but it would require a paradigm shift.

    I’ve struggled with this sort of thing for many years. Multiple audio devices (switching between speakers/headphones/headset), complex input/output schemas (e.g. audio passthrough for a console mixed with the podcast on my PC, or from the endurance race on a Chromecast (obligatory “🖕 peacock”) mixed with the game I’m playing on the PC), echo cancellation between various sources and the selected output, etc.

    Audio management is complex, but I think OP is getting at one of the weaker points in “year of the Linux desktop” adoption.

    I’m managing only because I’ve spent so much time figuring things out over nearly 20yrs of Linux use. My setup is currently a combination of plasma (I think the app is just “volume”), qpwgraph, and individual app settings.