[enhancement] Sound control panel

[Sergi Quiles Pérez]

Ubuntu Touch has many sources of sound. So it is difficult to control the level that is set in each source.

I think Ubuntu Touch is needing a sound control centre accessible from the sound indicator on the panel.

I don't really know if this is the place to expose this enhancement. Sorry if not. :-/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp)]

What I mean is that without a sound control panel you can't set the volume level for notifications, music, ringtone, etc.

[Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp)]

The silent mode should mute all kind of sounds on the phone, music included. I should work as a master volume control.

[Andrea Bernabei (faenil)]

I agree we need to provide more access of the different sound profiles.

About silent mode, please use https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1483890 for further discussion ;)

[Sergi Quiles Pérez (sergiqp)]

Andrea Bernabei, thanks for the link. :-)

[Jos van Houtem (jos-vh67)]

I would like to see the posibility of adjusting the sound for different "apps" under different circumstances. I mean, under the sound settings it would be great to have different sliders for Ringtone volumen, music volume, incomming message volume.
The music volume preferably depending on if you have a headset or speaker.
Would be even better to have the volume of "media players automatic embedded in webpages" muted by default. I'm embarressed when reading a webpage in public and all of a sudden an audio or video file on that website start playing at high volume.....but that's a little of-topic I guess.
To my opinion, the default settings under soundsettings (devided in ringer, music, messages....) should always be default when an app starts even if you can overrule these setting during usage of the app. So next time you start the app, the default volume will be restored and not the las used volume for that app.

Very anoying when plugging in a headphone to listen to music (with the default ringer volume on "maximum") you have to push down the volume of your headphone to avoid hearing damage.

[Olof Rydberg (0lof)]

I never start listen to music with headphones on my ears because the phone almost always chose maximum volume and the output will be max for a moment, even with the warning dialog showing on screen, before automatically lowering it slightly.

I don't dare using headphones until I have checked the volume level first...

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Olof, you seem to be describing bug 1485522. People often request overconfigurability as a workaround for bugs, but a “sound control panel” wouldn’t stop that bug from occurring.

[Buzea Bogdan (bogdanke8)]

@mpt "“sound control panel” wouldn’t stop that bug from occurring." Why not?... The settings should remember the volume from the previous session. So the volume would be like the last time it was used.

[Buzea Bogdan (bogdanke8)]

@mpt Like in Ubuntu 16.04 on desktop. The volume remain the same session after session. Only the user can change the volume, not the system on restart, reboot.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That’s confusing the settings with a UI for the settings. “The settings should remember the volume from the previous session” is just restating the bug; it has nothing to do with any UI. The reason bug 1485522 isn’t noticable on Ubuntu 16.04 for PC is that few, if any, apps on 16.04 for PC use qtmultimedia; again, it has nothing to do with any UI. If there was a “sound control panel” on a system with that bug, you would see a volume slider jumping around when it shouldn’t.

[Olof Rydberg (0lof)]

Matthew, ok I didn't know it was a bug.
I added myself as affected for that bug though I still think it may be something that needs to be added. At least an indicator, I have no idea how many different sound groups we have (or what they're called).

[Mateo Salta (mateo-salta)]

please add a real "silent" mode - silent mode still doesn't mute all sounds.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Mateo, 'real silent mode' is covered by bug #1483890 as mentioned by faenil in comment #4

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

bug #1483890 and bug #1485522 aside, I agree with this wishlist request for a UI to change the different audio roles' volumes.

[Mateo Salta (mateo-salta)]

It is all related - people don't even realize that this is a system problem. I put a game app in the store and got complaints about not being able to change the volume or mute it.

When the volume down actually works fine - people only see one volume bar and one silent mode switch - when you set both silent mode and pull the volume all the way down, users are blaming apps for playing sound, and now expecting that apps implement controls and settings within apps.

I think having the controls reimplemented by each app developer is not ideal, as since the volume levels are allready operating separately in the background - perhaps we could limit the exposure of controls in the drop down to recently heard/active sounds. This would make it easier for the short click sounds some apps use, and the screenhshot sound.

Maybe as well a almost 'permisions' style interaction in the system settings if a user really wants to dive deeper. -» Other Sounds -» App Sounds - as well as a toggle so a user can default starting apps out with the volume all the way down till they turn them up - having to worry about quickly hold volume down on any app you open is not the greatest.