sound applet and notification icon create duplication

[William Bohn]

Asus EEE PC 1000HE running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.

Recently, the volume has been able to be increased to audible levels - this is good.

However, after a round of recent updates (the one that made the sound audible) also made two GNOME sound applets appear, one of which being gnome-volume-control-applet, and the other is mixer_applet2.

The problems are:

1. The sound keeps getting reset to lower levels while using Audacious or other applications that use sound. It happens right after it moves to the next song or a new sound-producing file is opened.

2. The GNOME Keyboard shortcuts for adjusting the sound seems to have no effect on these mixers/ volume controls. I believe it's controlling a different device, despite specifying preferences otherwise in the gnome-volume-control-applet.

3. Two sound applets is confusing, and they seem to be competing with each other.

[Theo Nolte (theo-nolte)]

same here on medion akoya md-96970 laptop 64bit.
First noticed the second sound-applet yesterday (sat, july 18)

[caillean (caillean)]

same here on karmic 64bit.
when i start ubuntu the sound applet is muted, i have to remove the hook at the option "mute" and then the sound is working well.
i uninstalled pulseaudio and the problem disappeared.
but uninstalling pulseaudio cant be the solution .

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, one bug should describe on issue though, using this one for the duplicate issue

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu3

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gnome-panel (1:2.27.4-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04_default_panel_config.patch:
    - don't add a mixer applet to the default configuration since gnome-media
      has a notification area icon for that now (lp: #401294)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:35:22 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 2.27.3-0ubuntu3

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gnome-applets (2.27.3-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in, debian/gnome-applets.manpages, debian/rules:
    - don't build the mixer applet since the gnome-media one is used now
      (lp: #401294)
  * debian/control.in:
    - suggests typo fix
  * debian/patches/81_silent_applet_cleaning:
    - don't display a dialog about the applet configuration cleaning since
      that's something which should be transparent for the users

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:21:39 +0200

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

Just a question: are you sure that the new volume control (the one in notification area) works if you disable PulseAudio?

If not, isn't a better solution keep the old one, but don't add in default panel configuration (or remove from panel if you upgrade from 9.04)?

[Jeffrey Vandenborne (vandenbornejeffrey)]

This bug effects me as well, Ubuntu 9.10 64bit RC on an Acer M7720