Bug 432434

Summary: Fn+Mute stops muting both streams when stream's level is changed while in mute state
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: postix <postix>
Component: Audio in generalAssignee: David Rosca <nowrep>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: isma.af, nate, plasma-bugs-null, postix, tbertels
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 6.2.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498480
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Description postix 2021-02-02 21:07:35 UTC
Created attachment 135376 [details]
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SUMMARY

I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug -- however it leads to the situation where I don't hear any sound until I manually unmute the other device.


I got two streams / devices: "Speakers (Internal Audio Analog Stereo) and Simultaneous Output (of Internal Analogue Audio Stereo). When the latter is activated in the plasma-pa applet and I press Fn+Mute, both "devices" are muted or unmuted together. 
This changes once the audio level of the Simultaneous Output is changed (eg via Fn+Audio Volume Up/Down).
In this case this specific device only becomes unmuted.

Now pressing Fn+Mute _only_ affects this specific device in contrast to its former behaviour.

Please see the screen recording.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-02-03 18:11:40 UTC
Can confirm. I personally find this behavior super confusing and think that hitting the global mic/speaker mute buttons should just  mute or unmute everything without all this fancy logic.