gnome-volume-control-applet doesn't show notification icon for input levels

[Luca Ferretti]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

gnome-volume-control-applet should ideally (see [1] and [2]) automatically show a microphone icon in notification area (see [3]) when you start an application that PulseAudio identify as consumer of input audio channel.

This is a feature that was implemented in gnome-media 2.26, but that could appear in Ubuntu 9.10 (due to the full "switch" to PulseAudio).

Unfortunately, no microphone icon appears in notification area starting, for instance, the Sound Recorder application. Same issue occurs in Lucid Lynx alpha 2 (in VirtualBox, to be honest).

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-January/msg00268.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControl
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/1e/Statusicon.png

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 19 22:19:39 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: gnome-media 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GNOME Media is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.