Bug 463710

Summary: Volume control applet has no effect on Haruna volume
Product: [Applications] Haruna Reporter: Szczepan Hołyszewski <rulatir>
Component: genericAssignee: george fb <georgefb899>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Szczepan Hołyszewski 2023-01-02 02:32:12 UTC
SUMMARY

Changing volume in KMix has no effect on Haruna playback volume, and Haruna doesn't show in KMix as a program that plays sound while it is playing sound.

More importantly, Haruna lacks the ability to adjust the volume of each channel separately, which - combined with its apparent "independence" from what _should_ be the system-wide volume control - renders that important adjustment effectively unavailable in Haruna.

From the POV of an end user who shouldn't be required to understand the gory internals of pipewire, pulseaudio, ALSA, and sound card drivers, KMix should be the one, only and always-working go-to place for changing the volume of anything whatsoever. No software should circumvent this.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Play something with audio in Haruna
2. Try adjusting the volume of what Haruna plays using KMix

OBSERVED RESULT

Changing the volume in KMix has no effect on the volume of audio playback in Haruna. Haruna does not show on the Programs tab in KMix.

EXPECTED RESULT

Haruna audio volume should be controllable with KMix. Haruna should show on the Programs tab in KMix while playing sound.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.1.1-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7B24
System Version: 2.0
Comment 1 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2023-01-02 03:19:12 UTC
ERRATA: whenever I mention "KMix", I really mean the volume control applet.
Comment 2 george fb 2023-01-02 09:15:06 UTC
Haruna shows up as mpv (will fix that) and changing that affects Haruna's volume.
Comment 3 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2023-01-02 21:15:34 UTC
Still, it somehow bypasses main volume control, and per-program controls cannot be split.
Comment 4 george fb 2023-01-02 21:40:56 UTC
I have no idea what you mean.
Comment 5 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2023-02-07 22:40:26 UTC
(In reply to george fb from comment #4)
> I have no idea what you mean.

By "cannot be split" I mean that left and right channel cannot be adjusted separately, so even if Haruna appeared correctly on the programs tab in the volume control applet, it would still be impossible to adjust balance. However if Haruna didn't bypass the main volume control, then it would be possible, because the main volume contro DOES allow "splitting" and adjusting balance.
Comment 6 george fb 2023-02-09 12:50:10 UTC
I still don't understand what you mean.
Where do you expect to adjust the balance in Haruna or the  applet ( you refer to the default applet right?)

(In reply to Szczepan Hołyszewski from comment #5)
> However if Haruna didn't bypass the main volume control, then it would be
> possible, because the main volume contro DOES allow "splitting" and
> adjusting balance.

Again no idea what you mean with bypassing the main volume control.
The only place where I can adjust the left/right balance is in the settings and only for devices not applications (tried vlc and mpv). If I play something in Haruna and turn the right slider to 0 then no sound is coming from the right speaker.
Comment 7 Szczepan Hołyszewski 2023-02-18 11:57:03 UTC
> Again no idea what you mean with bypassing the main volume control.
> The only place where I can adjust the left/right balance is in the settings
> and only for devices not applications (tried vlc and mpv).

Yes, I do mean "adjust the left/right balance in the settings", and the settings can be opened from the RMB menu of the volume control applet in the system tray. The confusion was caused by lack of clear UI boundary: a user like me "does something" with the volume control applet and confusingly "ends up" in systemsettings.

Yes, I do mean "only for devices not applications".

Yes, I do mean that the following anomaly absolutely positively DOES manifest: I adjust main volume in the settings, and this has no effect on the volume of sound played by Haruna. I can literally mute everything else by dragging the volume slider all the way to the left, but Haruna is still happily playing sound, and the volume isn't reduced one bit. That's the main issue, that's the title of this bug report, and the whole balance thing is just a consequence of that: since the only control that allows adjusting the balance fails to control Haruna's volume, balance cannot be adjusted for Haruna.
Comment 8 george fb 2023-02-24 17:23:20 UTC
Works for me. Can't look into it if I can't reproduce.
Comment 9 Bug Janitor Service 2023-03-11 03:45:22 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Janitor Service 2023-03-26 03:45:34 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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