Bug 467117

Summary: While the audio is suspended, "Plasma PA" does not disappear after opening and closing the audio widget from tray.
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma-pa Reporter: Andrej Halveland <andrej.halv>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: alanas.00, alexinq6, antti.savo, asturm, isma.af, nate, nowrep, oshiorns1+kdebugs, relay198, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: All   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Video demonstration.

Description Andrej Halveland 2023-03-09 16:17:00 UTC
Created attachment 157148 [details]
Video demonstration.

When viewing "pw-top" or Carla, I can see new audio connections made each time when opening the "Plasma PA" widget (with the Applications tab open) from tray when an app like Firefox or Spotify are paused. The connections immediately disappear when an audio starts playing from the specific apps.

This is when using PipeWire, I don't know how (or if) it behaves the same on PulseAudio.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Open an app like Firefox, open a YouTube video and then pause it.
2.  Or open Spotify, play something for a second and then pause it.
3.  Open "pw-top" in terminal
4. Start opening and closing the Audio Volume (with the Applications shown, not the devices) widget located in the system tray.

OBSERVED RESULT
"Plasma PA" clients start appearing in pw-top, and only disappear when playing audio from the apps that had their audio paused.

EXPECTED RESULT
The "Plasma PA" clients should disappear regardless if the audio client has their audio suspended/paused or not.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.2
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
Memory:  16GB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Integrated: Vega 8
Manufacturer: ASUS (Zephyrus G15 GA502IV)
Comment 1 Antti Savolainen 2023-11-28 17:47:16 UTC
Thank you. I was wondering what the conditions of reproducing this bug was
Comment 3 Harald Sitter 2024-10-02 10:55:18 UTC
*** Bug 457023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Harald Sitter 2024-10-02 10:56:06 UTC
*** Bug 489255 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Harald Sitter 2024-10-03 12:07:36 UTC
*** Bug 460388 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Nicolas Fella 2025-01-14 23:02:23 UTC
*** Bug 498661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***