GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 756585
Have sound output controls for multiple applications in Status Menu
Last modified: 2018-07-21 13:38:52 UTC
I think that a really good feature would be one that would allow you to easily change the sound output volume for individual applications in the Status Menu. So what I mean is that you would probably have a pull-down menu in there for sound, and then it would give you a list of applications, and if you check a little box next to an application you will be able to set a custom output sound volume for it, and if not, then the normal sound output volume that you have set (and can change) is used. I thought that this might be an upstream issue so I thought that I would report it here as well as here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1506176
The current plan for the Sound settings, whether in GNOME Shell or the Settings is to avoid having per-application volumes altogether and have "role" based volumes instead. You can see early designs for the settings panel at: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2016/01/13/a-settings-design-update/ The system status menu would likely show volumes for the various roles instead of a single one, but not for each application using the volume, which might get overly long and difficult to handle (say, 10 different web browsers tabs showing in there).
You could have them in little pull-down menus (categories) inside the pull-down itself. Perhaps though you wouldn't have to use the tabs and you could just go for the entire application, although perhaps allow a dconf option or something to allow the user to set the depth of how many things it should show (e.g.: whether it should just be the applications or also the things within in them such as tabs).
As mentioned in comment #1, the design is moving away from exposing per-application volumes. Once "role" volumes get implemented, I expect the shell's volume section to receive an update as well, but we don't need this report to track this.
Ok, that is fine!