Media keys no longer send notifications [$115]

[Danielle Foré]

It looks like media key handling was moved out of gnome settings daemon and into GNOME Shell. This affects keys like:

Volume up/down
Mute
Back/forward/play/pause
keyboard brightness
display brightness

Most of these are now handled by Gala, however we no longer have confirmation notifications when these keys are pressed.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

According to Ikey, Budgie implements a GSD-compatible interface. It looks like they do it as part of the wm and not its own process like XFCE https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/blob/master/wm/impl/keys.c

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

It looks like the sound indicator already contains code for sending notifications on scroll. Maybe it wouldn't be a terrible idea for it to be listening for the media keys? Wingpanel is something that is already always running. I wonder if it makes sense for wingpanel (and extensions) to handle media keys listening

Something to consider is that this seems to also affect shortcuts like super + space and super + T

I'm not sure I like the idea of using unity settings daemon just because it seems counter to the goal of getting debian-based builds

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Something else to consider. If the sound indicator handled volume confirmations, it would be able to solve this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wingpanel-indicator-sound/+bug/1463578

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'm going to mark this as "In Progress". Media keys now technically work, but there's no feedback.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

No movement on this lately, moving back to Confirmed for the sake of a more accurate milestone

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/27308657-media-keys-no-longer-send-notifications

[Zisu Andrei (matzipan)]

I can't see a reason why this would be handled in the indicators. Plus, it seems like an overlap in concerns. Ideally, the sound indicator would call back to gala for triggering any secondary actions (i.e. notifications).