Summary: | Phonon KCM: General devicepriority wont effect sometimes | ||
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Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] Phonon | Reporter: | Matthias <shalokshalom> |
Component: | settings | Assignee: | Harald Sitter <sitter> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | ddascalescu+kde, myriam |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Sentry Crash Report: | |||
Attachments: | Are Phonon audio categories for real? |
Description
Matthias
2015-11-11 03:22:42 UTC
The problem here is that applications are not forced to define their content and even when they do they aren't always right. For example VLC always claims it is playing video even when it isn't. This is rather unfortunate and indeed not clear to the user. The KCM in general is way too complicated, so I think the design choice last this came up was to eventually hide the categories entirely and blanket manage all application categories with one single list. While the list-per-category feature looked nice on paper it is way too complicated and buggy to be useful in practise unfortunately. I agree with you and was just to shy, to propose such a "radical" step. It might be another method, to open issue reports at the specific app projects, while i think, this wont work in real world. It might be a nice alternative, to create a quick switch between the different sound chips, like in plasma-pa or a notification pop up, as recommended by you in this report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355168 Created attachment 100903 [details]
Are Phonon audio categories for real?
Neither Chromium nor SMPlayer cared about the setting for any of the categories under Audio Playback.
Is this a gimmick?
It works sometimes. :) |