Comment 12 for bug 1478506
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: Apps change audio output role all the time | #12 |
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"I don't think we want to change the SoundEffect to the alert role. That would make things even more complicated and not really help with this bug."
It's not more complicated, because SoundEffect and Audio *already both exist*. If they are supposed to use the same role, what is the point of them both existing?
I described how it would fix the bug: it would result in SoundEffect using the role that the volume controls are operating on most of the time, and therefore the volume controls would change the volume of the game sounds. Why do you say it would not really help?
"Also muting a game with some background music and sound effects (e.g. Machines vs. Machines) would require both, the alert and the multimedia slider to be muted."
Any game that plays background music should contain its own button for muting the background music, because you might prefer to play your own music in the background instead. This is routine on other platforms, so I think it's quite reasonable to expect for Ubuntu games too.