Bug 425655

Summary:	System Tray Microphone icon is confusingly different from the speaker icon for the plasma-pa applet
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	medin <med.medin.2014>
Component:	Microphone Indicator widget	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	daniel-other+kdebug, nate, nicolas.fella, pavol, plasma-bugs-null, postix, voidpointertonull+bugskdeorg
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	5.19.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	microphone icon

Description medin 2020-08-21 21:34:12 UTC

When microphone is used, the microphone icon appears is System Tray, so normally/simply if I want to change microphone level I should left click by mouse on microphone icon then be able to change its level, but what we have is that the microphone icon serves only as indicator that says the microphone is currently used and we can also mute it by right click menu.

So in order to change microphone level I should go to speaker icon and click on it then change the microphone level, thankfully mouse scroll works on the microphone icon.

What I think should be the normal behavior to have the left click by mouse on microphone icon opens the same widget that appear when we left click by mouse on speaker icon, so like this the icon role become logical and intuitive to users.

Comment 1 medin 2020-08-27 17:30:41 UTC

Created attachment 131222 [details]
microphone icon

Comment 2 medin 2020-08-27 17:31:03 UTC

The best way to approach this case by putting together both speaker and microphone icons under one block like what attached image shows.
In case where microphone is not used only speaker icon is shown.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-02-04 18:56:29 UTC

That could work, but we don't currently have the ability to use non-square system tray items. We would need to do add that first.