Regarding Ubuntu/Gnome, it's currently even *if* I am aware of un-sane sound device settings, the only existing frontent (gnome sound settings) suggests that it can be used to select/change the default device, but in fact does nothing in most of the cases.
Maybe I should check if there's some bug-report regarding that filed there already... However, returning to the actual topic, here's my suggestion for the errormessage ("Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings") What about: "Unable to find/use device XXX. Please correct this in the Multimedia settings" -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs