I’ve been able to pay a bit more attention to the Sound Switcher Indicator and implement some of the long asked-for features.

What’s new

• Version 2.1.0 (2016-09-29)

  • Added support for configuration file (#30).
    See below for details about its format.
  • The sections Inputs and Outputs can be hidden now (#32).
  • Device and port names can now be configured (#31).
  • Unused ports can be blacklisted (hidden from the menu) (#13).
  • French translation added.

• Version 2.0.2 (2016-09-28)

  • The menu can now be localised (#28).
    I’ve made use of the standard localisation library GNU gettext. New translations can easily be added as .po files, and merged from pull requests.
  • Russian and Spanish translations added.
  • Added a manpage (#24).
    It can be viewed using man indicator-sound-switcher (there’s not much information yet, but at least it’s there).

The configuration file

The configuration file, by default ~/.config/indicator-sound-switcher.json, must be in the JSON format. The file is optional, and so are all its values.

Here’s a sample config taken from the README:

{