Bug#409500: closed by Sebastian Dröge <slomo at uni-paderborn.de> (Re: gconf: Dynamically change sink)

[Mike Hommey]

> Agreed, you don't need to restart the application to get the new
> settings. Stopping playback and starting again should be enough, if it
> isn't this is most likely a bug in the application you use for playback
> (which is it?).

It did happen with totem and rhythmbox, at least.

Mike