Cannot reassign 'volume-quiet' keys shortcuts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Scenario: User wants to always change volume 'quietly'. User opens dconf-Editor or similar and finds the keyboard shortcuts.
Expected behaviour: user can assign new keyboard shortcut to 'volume-up-quiet' and 'volume-down-quiet'
Actual behaviour: keys are not assignable, but hard-coded to <Alt>XF86AudioR
An oft-requested feature is to "stop the pips" when using media keys to change the volume. AskUbuntu has several unresolved questions about this issue.
The current solution is to use <Alt>XF86AudioL
Proposal: Add two new settings_keys: volume-up-quiet and volume-down-quiet, initially assigned as above, but assignable by the user. It then becomes relatively easy to swap the assignment of volume-up/down and volume-
To my untrained eye, it looks like there would need to be a minor modification to plugins/
If I had any real history with C, I'd submit a patch, but I don't, so I'm worried I've missed something vital.