QAudioDeviceInfo should have a displayName() or description() function

Hi, I am using Qt 5.2.1 on Ubuntu 13.04. If I call

QAudioDeviceInfo::availableDevices(...)

I get a list of devices like this:

alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor

Now, as far as I understand, availableDevices is the only API that can be called to retrieve the audio devices list that can be presented to the application UI. How can strings like those be of any use to the user ?

In my previous implementation based on Qt 4.8, I was using direct calls to ALSA, getting a list like this:

HDA Intel PCH - ALC269VB Analog
HDA Intel PCH - HDMI 0

So there is indeed a way to get better strings, without the need of additional parsing. Moreover, the code has to be distinguished by platform, as on Windows (for example) the names are a little bit better, but truncated to 31 characters for historical reasons (which I am surprised have never been faced in a serious way)

Can this API be improved at least on Linux ?

Thanks