Bug 376765

Summary:	Plasma Ignores notifications audio settings
Product:	[Unmaintained] phonon-backend-gstreamer	Reporter:	Germano Massullo <germano.massullo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Vrátil <dvratil>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	bugseforuns, jodr666, mklapetek, myriam, plasma-bugs, rdieter, romain.perier, sitter, tdfischer, wbauer1
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.9.0
Target Milestone:	4.8
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Germano Massullo 2017-02-21 16:02:19 UTC

In Plasma audio settings->Volume audio I disabled notifications sound volume. Despite such setting, Plasma continues playing sound notifications

plasma-pa-5.8.5-1.fc25.x86_64

Comment 1 David Rosca 2017-02-23 09:22:23 UTC

VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when using libvlc < 3.0.0

If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification sound configuration.

Comment 2 Germano Massullo 2017-02-23 09:28:09 UTC

(In reply to David Rosca from comment #1)
> VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when
> using libvlc < 3.0.0
> 
> If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification
> sound configuration.

I am using GStreamer Phonon backend.
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0-1.fc25.x86_64

Comment 3 Tony 2017-02-28 02:09:44 UTC

(In reply to David Rosca from comment #1)
> VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when
> using libvlc < 3.0.0
> 
> If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification
> sound configuration.

Sooooo that's the reason why i get "cut off" notifications sounds even after i disabled them. After switching to phonon gstreamer its fine.

(In reply to Germano Massullo from comment #2)
> (In reply to David Rosca from comment #1)
> > VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when
> > using libvlc < 3.0.0
> > 
> > If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification
> > sound configuration.
> 
> I am using GStreamer Phonon backend.
> phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0-1.fc25.x86_64

Set "phonon-backend-gstreamer" as the prefer one, move it on top of phonon vlc.


My question is why not use "GStreamer Phonon backend" as default? and avoid this. For what i can tell GStreamer Phonon backend has more dependencies but that can't be the only reason.

Comment 4 Germano Massullo 2017-02-28 17:48:49 UTC

(In reply to Tony from comment #3)
> (In reply to David Rosca from comment #1)
> > VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when
> > using libvlc < 3.0.0
> > 
> > If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification
> > sound configuration.
> 
> Sooooo that's the reason why i get "cut off" notifications sounds even after
> i disabled them. After switching to phonon gstreamer its fine.
> 
> (In reply to Germano Massullo from comment #2)
> > (In reply to David Rosca from comment #1)
> > > VLC Phonon backend doesn't support playing streams with different roles when
> > > using libvlc < 3.0.0
> > > 
> > > If you switch to GStreamer Phonon backend, it will follow the notification
> > > sound configuration.
> > 
> > I am using GStreamer Phonon backend.
> > phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.9.0-1.fc25.x86_64
> 
> Set "phonon-backend-gstreamer" as the prefer one, move it on top of phonon
> vlc.
> 
> 
> My question is why not use "GStreamer Phonon backend" as default? and avoid
> this. For what i can tell GStreamer Phonon backend has more dependencies but
> that can't be the only reason.

Why are you assuming that I have VLC Phonon backend installed?

Comment 5 Pekka Helenius 2017-03-02 14:33:33 UTC

I have this bug with phonon-qt5-gstreamer (4.9.0) + Pulseaudio (10.0) + Plasma Workspace 5.9.3 on Arch Linux. Notification sounds have been set to 0% in Audio Volume Settings but, for example, confirmation sound (Oxygen-Sys-Warning.ogg) for file deletion is still played at 100% or at least *extremely* loud.

I've also rebooted my system.

Comment 6 Pekka Helenius 2017-03-23 08:48:03 UTC

Can't reproduce the bug anymore. I've set "Notification Sounds" to 0% and have "Mute audio" icon activated for it in System Settings -> Multimedia. Everything works as expected.

Plasma 5.9.4.

Comment 7 Wolfgang Bauer 2017-12-30 13:06:22 UTC

Maybe related to bug#382504?

Apparently "Mute" for notification sounds doesn't have immediate effect for already running applications (that includes plasmashell I suppose).
Changing the volume (to 0 e.g.) works fine here though (but there were problems regarding this in plasma-pa y 5.11, see bug#383787)

Comment 8 Germano Massullo 2022-04-28 09:48:57 UTC

no longer happening in recent Plasma versions