pulse audio remembers muted applications without notification

[ski]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

pulseaudio remembers which applications were muted last time. so i muted skype via pulseaudio in sound preferences -> applications awhile back and skype output audio "hasn't worked" since.

it took me a while to realize that skype was muted. this was compounded by the fact that skype doesn't show up in the applications list when it is not actively trying to make a sound, so i couldn't tell that skype was muted without making a call.

i think this is a usability problem - it would be nice if pa used the notification system to alert the user when an app starts that it will run muted...

[Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3)]

setting to confirmed and wishlist in Ubuntu, as we won't have resources to address this issue ourselves

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]