Bug 141184

Summary: "Use absolute volume" setting not reflected in panel applet tooltip
Product: [Applications] kmix Reporter: munlinux
Component: Obsolete component. Do NOT use!!! (ex: KMix Panel Applet).Assignee: Christian Esken <esken>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: VLO    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description munlinux 2007-02-04 17:24:06 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

In kmix preferences you are allowed to select between relative (0-100%) or absolute volume settings. For some reason, I dislike uneven percentages, so instead I prefer using the absolute settings.

Now, the tooltip still shows 74% instead of 23. I view this as a bug, since it is reasonable to expect the setting to affect also the panel applet.

The wishlist part of the bug is this: as different channels can have a different maximum value, it would actually be useful to show the tooltip as "Volume: 23/31", where 31 is the max for the assigned channel. This would give the best of both worlds, absolute and relative. If this last part doesn't make sense to you, forget it, but please do consider the primary issue.
Comment 1 Christian Esken 2007-06-16 19:11:22 UTC 
I consider both issues as wishlist, as panel applets are always someting completely different. Otherwise I would have to allow Switches in there, Enum items and so on in the panel applet. Also tickmarks and a hundred other things.

Hint: There are no plans to work on the panel applet at the moment, except those works needed for KDE4 migraton. Patches (against KDE4 HEAD) are welcome.
Comment 2 munlinux 2007-06-16 19:22:58 UTC 
Thank you for the acknowledgement and the information.
Comment 3 Christian Esken 2007-06-17 02:05:05 UTC 
Internal remark: bug 141184 and bug 145851 are pretty close to each other. One for panel applet, one for dock icon. If fixed, I'll probably do them at the same time.
Comment 4 Christian Esken 2008-01-05 14:52:36 UTC 
There are three aspects here, why I want to close this bug report.

1) I won't do any changes more for KDE3.x
2) There is no panel applet in KDE4.0
3) The display of volume levels as text (either as percentage or absolute) has not been ported to KDE4.
Comment 5 munlinux 2008-01-05 14:58:38 UTC 
Fair enough, thank you for the information.