Bug 171287

There are no Sliders in a Plasmoid (at least this was the case when I last looked, which was in KDE4.0.x or KDE4.1.x). So I cannot do that. Also I have neither time nor too much interest to do that.

*** Bug 184197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Judging by how the Mixeroid dev speaks of "the standard Plasma slider", it looks like your first reason no longer applies.

Could you at least leave this as UNCONFIRMED?

Yeah, please reassign this bug to someone else who does plasmoid.

It's not exactly a replacement to KMix but vaguely does a similar job:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Mixeroid?content=99778

Unfortunately, I've already found Mixeroid and decided that having the adjusters directly in the panel rather using an icon and a pop-up was a "deal-breaker". (I just woke up so my vocabulary is a little thin)

It would be nice to have this bug reopened as I think it's a valid "wish".
Looking at what's shown here:
http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/A_system_tray_even_more_Plasma
I think this is now feasible.

I think it would be nice to have a similar thing for KMix, with sliders for volumes like the screen brightness one in the screenshot.

Christian: even if you're not willing to implement it, just leave the bug open so that users can vote, and eventually someone can fix it.

Thanks,
Diego

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Reopening, due to comment #7.

It's quite likely that I won't do it personally for various reasons (time, interest). But this is Open Source: Everybody out there with some spare time is invited to do this.

I tried to implement a plasmoid which works with kmix via dbus and I ran into some problems with kmix dbus interface.
First of all, there is no way to get mixers count or list (dbus method like mixers(), that will return ['Mixer0', 'Mixer1', 'Mixer2', etc] or something like that)
Secondly, there is no way to get master mixer for kmix (dbus method like masterMixer(), that will return 'Mixer0')
Thirdly, there is no way to get devices list for any mixer (dbus method like /Mixer0 devices(), that will return ['alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo', etc])
Fourthly, there is no way to get readable device or mixer name (dbus methods like '/Mixer0 readableDeviceName(QString &deviceidx)' and '/Mixer0 readableName()')

Thanks for the feedback. I'll check how complicated the 4 missing methods are (or how to do it otherwise).

Raising Priortiy

*** Bug 248422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I will come back to this after merging branch to trunk (the latter should happen until end of August 2010).

What is happening with this bug now?

Relevant links:
http://polentino911.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/kmix-plasmified-screencast/
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Veromix+-+volume+control+++soundmenu?content=116676

SVN commit 1227396 by poboiko:

Rework KMix DBus API and add mixer plasma dataengine
CCBUG: 171287


 M  +17 -5     CMakeLists.txt  
 M  +16 -3     apps/kmix.cpp  
 M  +11 -0     core/mixdevice.cpp  
 M  +7 -0      core/mixdevice.h  
 M  +11 -188   core/mixer.cpp  
 M  +9 -26     core/mixer.h  
 A             dbus (directory)  
 A             dbus/dbuscontrolwrapper.cpp   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/dbuscontrolwrapper.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/dbusmixerwrapper.cpp   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/dbusmixerwrapper.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/dbusmixsetwrapper.cpp   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/dbusmixsetwrapper.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             dbus/org.kde.kmix.control.xml  
 A             dbus/org.kde.kmix.mixer.xml  
 A             dbus/org.kde.kmix.mixset.xml  
 M  +2 -2      gui/kmixdockwidget.cpp  
 D             org.kde.KMix.xml  
 A             plasma (directory)  
 A             plasma/CMakeLists.txt  
 A             plasma/engine (directory)  
 A             plasma/engine/CMakeLists.txt  
 A             plasma/engine/mixer.operations  
 A             plasma/engine/mixerengine.cpp   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             plasma/engine/mixerengine.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             plasma/engine/mixerservice.cpp   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             plasma/engine/mixerservice.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)]
 A             plasma/engine/plasma-engine-mixer.desktop  
 M  +3 -1      tests/CMakeLists.txt  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1227396

Moving back to wishlist

Just wondering what is happening with this ticket? DBUS API is there, so there should be no blocker, right? Igor, care to comment?

My implementation of plasmoid lies in my scratch repo - http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Fpoboiko%2Fkmix-plasmoid.git
It works, but there were several issues:
1) It's not QML. Plasma guys are rewriting applets on QML now, so I guess it should be rewritten too (and unfortunately I don't know QML)
2) It had weird bug when the applet didn't receive data update from engine (because of it applet thought kmix wasn't running on startup - sometimes). This problem was badly reproducable, and it looked like it was plasma bug (I wrote a mail to plasma-devel, but they didn't answer :( ), so I didn't manage to fix it.
3) It doesn't have MPRIS2 controls.

I really wish this will be fixed with the plasma/QT5/QML rewrite.
Volume management is just a common feature in desktop shells, the fact that plasma's is not consistent with the rest of the shell make plasma look bad in comparison with competition.

Moving ticket on hold, as possible work is on Reviewboard. https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112208/

There is now a Plasma volume control applet (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa) and also a media controller applet.  Closing for KMix.