Volume notifications over multimedia content are annoying
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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The Sound Menu |
Fix Released
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High
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Ted Gould | ||
Ubuntu UX |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Matthew Paul Thomas | ||
indicator-sound (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This doesn't work today, but assuming bug 1378920 gets fixed the user experience will be:
You're playing a video. You hit the volume up key. The audio of your program will be reduced, the alert sound will play, and then the volume of the program will be restored. As you're trying to hear the program, this goes directly against what you're trying to do.
Possible solutions:
- No audio or even visual notifications when multimedia is active
- Visual but no audio notifications when multimedia is active
- Visual but no audio when anything but alert is active (phone, alarm, etc.)
- No change, this is desired behavior
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Related branches
- Charles Kerr (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 94 lines (+53/-1)2 files modifiedsrc/volume-control.vala (+36/-1)
tests/manual (+17/-0)
- Charles Kerr (community): Approve
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Diff: 94 lines (+53/-1)2 files modifiedsrc/volume-control.vala (+36/-1)
tests/manual (+17/-0)
- Charles Kerr (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 94 lines (+53/-1)2 files modifiedsrc/volume-control.vala (+36/-1)
tests/manual (+17/-0)
- Charles Kerr (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
- Ted Gould: Pending requested
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Diff: 442 lines (+268/-9)5 files modifieddebian/changelog (+13/-0)
src/service.vala (+21/-2)
src/sound-menu.vala (+39/-1)
src/volume-control.vala (+96/-6)
tests/manual (+99/-0)
- Ted Gould: Pending requested
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Diff: 406 lines (+267/-2)5 files modifieddebian/changelog (+13/-0)
src/service.vala (+19/-0)
src/sound-menu.vala (+39/-1)
src/volume-control.vala (+97/-1)
tests/manual (+99/-0)
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-sound: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in indicator-sound: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Ted Gould (ted) |
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in indicator-sound: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in indicator-sound: | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
IMHO we should show the visual but only playing the audio notification if the active role is 'alert'.
We'd need a hint for that (from indicator-sound), and that hint might also be useful to show different icons as well (multimedia, phone, alert, alarm).