[launcher] Show overlay icon for sound in launcher

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

This is a feature request.

It would be very useful if an app making sound would get a "speaker" overlay icon in the launcher, like what happens on chrome tabs.

[Merlijn Sebrechts (merlijn-sebrechts)]

Can you specify what information is needed?

Op donderdag 26 maart 2015 heeft Michael Zanetti <
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> ** Also affects: ubuntu-ux
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
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> ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
> Show overlay icon for sound in launcher
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> Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
> New
> Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> This is a feature request.
>
> It would be very useful if an app making sound would get a "speaker"
> overlay icon in the launcher, like what happens on chrome tabs.
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[Michał Sawicz (saviq)]

Merlijn, we need our design to look into this and evaluate it.

I'm leaning towards this not being needed, because no app can make sound if it's in the background, other than talking to the media hub, which will (doesn't yet, but will) display a per-app entry in the sound indicator menu and will allow you to pause/resume from there.

[Vesa Rautiainen (vesar)]

From UX point of view having a speaker icon on top of launcher icon doesn't really give much value to the user. It would just take away from our app icon designs and make the launcher more cluttered. There are already multiple possible indicators appearing on top of an icons (progress bar, count emblem) and this would be just one more. And it's not even very important one.

If you can come up with a very good use case when that information is crucial I'm of course willing to reconsider.