Bug 489273

Summary:	The audio devices info at infocenter demands the use of pactl utility only, even on pipewire systems
Product:	[Applications] kinfocenter	Reporter:	Geraldo Simião <geraldo.simiao.kutz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate, sitter, worset.you
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Geraldo Simião 2024-06-27 00:57:36 UTC

SUMMARY
The audio devices info at kinfocenter uses only pactl utility to obtain information about audio devices, but on distros like fedoa that uses only pipewire and wireplumber as profile manager one can use another built-in native wireplumber utility to obtain these infos, the wpctl status command.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use a distro shiped with pipewire and wireplumber
2. Open Kinfocenter and search for device => audio


OBSERVED RESULT
See a warn asking you to install pactl

EXPECTED RESULT
See audio devices information

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Kernel Version: 6.9.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
kinfocenter-6.1.0-1.fc40.x86_64

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-06-27 01:32:35 UTC

Probably makes sense to allow it to request multiple CLI programs have it use the first one it finds. That way it could for ask for `wpctl`, and then fall back to `pactl`.

Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-01-10 06:35:30 UTC

*** Bug 498047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***