KMix plays a sound and shows an OSD whenever the volume changes by "volume up/down". In contrast, plasma-pa only shows the OSD, but plays no sound. The sound is helpful to get a feedback about the actual loudness of the sound device (its sometimes hard to guess how loud X% might be), especially if one wants to configure the volume before (and not while) playing some media. As there are also peplle which may prefer a silent volume change, I would like to propose that plasma-pa adds a volume change notification event that can be configured individually. Reproducible: Always
Also, I personally have no use for the OSD and would like to disable it. As it appears in the center of the screen (why?), it often occludes content I am watching.
Git commit 6814a96da412578a4be47c5643ff6ea13dfdf9e6 by David Rosca. Committed on 28/07/2016 at 14:54. Pushed by drosca into branch 'master'. Add option to enable volume feedback Play "pop" sound when changing volume Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2219 M +1 -0 CMakeLists.txt M +3 -0 applet/contents/config/main.xml M +53 -22 applet/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml M +4 -0 applet/contents/ui/ListItemBase.qml M +18 -0 applet/contents/ui/main.qml A +50 -0 cmake/FindCanberra.cmake M +2 -0 src/qml/CMakeLists.txt M +2 -0 src/qml/plugin.cpp A +83 -0 src/qml/volumefeedback.cpp [License: LGPL] A +46 -0 src/qml/volumefeedback.h [License: LGPL] http://commits.kde.org/plasma-pa/6814a96da412578a4be47c5643ff6ea13dfdf9e6