Bug 449174

Summary:	Sound / Volume applet: Option to display all running applications with windows w/ and w/o sound
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	Audio Volume widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	isma.af, nate, niccolo, nicolas.fella, nowrep, plasma-bugs-null, postix, tobias
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.2.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description postix 2022-01-25 20:02:56 UTC

Currently the audio applet lists only applets which do play sound in the moment. 

However, I would like to e.g. mute an application like the Firefox browser, before I hit the "play" button, e.g. of a video, while I still listen to another source, like a music player / conference software / etc.

This seems currently not possible. Therefore an option to "show applications without sound" would be very helpful.

Comment 1 postix 2022-01-25 20:10:47 UTC

Videos in the FF browser are of course just one example and not for each video player you can set the volume in-before hand.
Other examples are applications, which only sporadically play sound, and thus only appear in the list for a very short time. There are of course more examples, but I think those already justify an implementation.

Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2022-01-25 22:53:17 UTC

That should be possible to do using the stream restore database from pulseaudio. However that's a potentially _very_ long list of programs, so not sure how to present that in a nice manner

Comment 3 Niccolò Venerandi 2025-10-21 08:58:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407650 ***