Bug 470316

Summary: Safety: Don't auto-unmute when lowering volume
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: tempqd <variable_valuables761>
Component: Audio in generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: normal CC: isma.af, jan.selchow, nate, nowrep
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.2.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Description tempqd 2023-05-26 22:34:23 UTC 
SUMMARY
A cool new feature I noticed in another OS is that, when the audio is muted, lowering the volume doesn't unmute automatically. This is (I assume) a safety feature: if your audio is too loud and you panic-mute to save your eardrums, you want to be able to lower the volume to a safe level before unmuting.

Similarly, it may be desirable to disallow holding down the volume up shortcut to rapidly raise volume. If the key gets stuck, the audio can very quickly reach ear-damaging levels with no warning.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Mute audio
2. Press "volume down" key shortcut (or drag volume slider down)

OBSERVED RESULT
Audio is unmuted and lowered simultaneously

EXPECTED RESULT
Audio lowers and remains muted


OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed, latest snapshot
Comment 1 Bug Janitor Service 2023-06-27 20:23:08 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/-/merge_requests/192
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-03-24 21:02:07 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/-/merge_requests/251