Bug 500045

Summary:	Audio indicator gets placed on applications that are not playing any audio for Flatpak / Chromium / Electron applications and on all tabs for Firefox
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	hbr <nepnep>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Showing the issue for Flatpak Showing the issue for Chromium / Electron Showing the issue for Firefox

Description hbr 2025-02-14 07:59:36 UTC

SUMMARY:

The audio indicator gets placed on application icons that are not actually playing audio and on all tabs of Firefox, even tho not all of them play audio.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Flatpak related:
Run an application / game that plays audio in the Flatpak version of bottles.

Result:
The bottles icon gets the audio indicator and not the application / game actually playing the audio. Additionally if you open other Flatpak applications after that they also get the the audio indicator even tho they are not playing any audio.

Chromium / Electron related:
Run an Electron based application playing audio and open Chromium after that.

Result:
The Chromium icon also gets the audio indicator even tho it is not playing any audio.

Firefox related:
Play audio in a Firefox tab / Picture-in-Picture window and then click on the icon to open the list.

Result:
All tabs / windows of that Firefox instance are marked as playing audio even tho not all of them are. The audio indicator also seems to disappear from the task manager after opening the list once.

EXPECTED RESULT:
The audio indicator is only added to the applications that are actually playing audio. Otherwise it is pretty useless.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS:
Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
Memory: 30,9 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: X670E Steel Legend

Comment 1 hbr 2025-02-14 08:00:15 UTC

Created attachment 178342 [details]
Showing the issue for Flatpak

Comment 2 hbr 2025-02-14 08:00:37 UTC

Created attachment 178343 [details]
Showing the issue for Chromium / Electron

Comment 3 hbr 2025-02-14 08:00:52 UTC

Created attachment 178344 [details]
Showing the issue for Firefox

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-02-18 18:38:56 UTC

This is a combination of multiple issues.

> Run an Electron based application playing audio and open Chromium after that.
> The Chromium icon also gets the audio indicator even tho it is not playing any audio.
This is bug 472539.

> The bottles icon gets the audio indicator and not the application / game actually playing the audio.
> Additionally if you open other Flatpak applications after that they also get the the audio indicator
> even tho they are not playing any audio.
This is bug 463356.

> All tabs / windows of that Firefox instance are marked as playing audio even tho not all of them are
This is bug 375943.


Since we can't multi-dupe, I'm going to arbitrarily mark this as a duplicate of Bug 472539.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 472539 ***