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Bug 756585 - Have sound output controls for multiple applications in Status Menu
Have sound output controls for multiple applications in Status Menu
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: system-status
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-14 18:41 UTC by Inactive account
Modified: 2018-07-21 13:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Inactive account 2015-10-14 18:41:29 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
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2016-02-01 15:59:36 UTC
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).
Comment 2 Inactive account 2018-07-21 13:29:19 UTC
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).
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2018-07-21 13:33:03 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Inactive account 2018-07-21 13:38:52 UTC
Ok, that is fine!