Comment 4 for bug 418617
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| Jerone Young (jerone) wrote Re: Sound Prefrences applet does not offer a way for laptop users to use mic jack attached mic | #4 |
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To follow up on this more I bring the example of the Lenovo Thinkpad.
It has 3 ways of recording audio:
1) internal mic
2) mic jack
3) dock mic
* if your on a docking station you can have a microphone attached. This is a seperate codec (mixer) from the mic jack.
Exactly how does a user use the doc mic ? This is why you cannot have everything be automatic as you make assumtions that may not be true for all users.
In this case a user could have a mic plugged into the dock, but wants to use their headset to record. Maybe both just happened to be plugged in and they want to use the internal mic as they have many friends who want to chat who are with them.