SUMMARY This is a UX bug. On a Kubuntu installation, the most prominent way to get to audio settings is through the `Audio Volume` system tray icon. Clicking on the `settings` icon in that system tray applet brings up the KDE `Audio Volume Settings` menu. From this menu, some setting are available, but not all. For instance, it does not have the ability to swap between ports on an input device. From this settings menu, there is no icon or hint that there is another audio setting applet (PulseAudio in my case). This leads the user to believe that the only audio settings are the ones on display in the KDE Audio Volume settings. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click on the audio icon in the system tray 2. Click on the settings icon to open `Audio Volume Settings` OBSERVED RESULT No reference to the backend audio driver settings EXPECTED RESULT A icon to click that refers the user to the PulseAudio settings menu OR a fully featured settings menu SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44.0 Qt Version: 5.9.5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Using pulseaudio audio backend
When you say, "...there is another audio setting applet (PulseAudio in my case)", are you referring to pavucontrol? Or something else? If it's something else, can you attach a screenshot of that thing?
Created attachment 121148 [details] Audio Volume Settings - Plasma
Created attachment 121149 [details] Volume Control
Please find the two attached images. One, `Audio Volume Settings - Plasma` is what is opened by the taskbar menu. This is the less featured menu. I believe this repo is for this menu, I may be mistaken. The other settings menu, `Volume Control` is the fully featured menu, it is found by searching for `Volume` and is called `PulseAudio Volume Control` when I run a search.
The second picture depicts pulseaudio-qt, a Qt port of the pavucontrol app I mentioned earlier. As far as I can tell, pulseaudio-qt offers the exact same features as our Audio Volume page in System Settings, just laid out in a different way. Can you describe which features are missing in the Audio Volume page that you can find in the pulseaudio-qt app? Thanks!
That's not pulseaudio-qt, it's pavucontrol-qt. pulseaudio-qt is a Qt wrapper for libpulse, it does not have any UI itself
As you can see in the two screenshots, the plasma audio volume applet lets me see the input and output devices available, but does not let me choose the `port` as pavucontrol-qt does. For the laptop I am using, I have one audio device (built in to the motherboard). But it has multiple inputs, line in or the built in microphone. This is similar for the output. In the plasma audio volume applet, I cannot select between these, and there is no clear indication of where to go to change between the `ports` of my built in devices
Thanks for the info. Re-titling the bug to reflect the actual request (add a port changing UI to the KCM). Note that you can change the port in the system tray applet. Just click on the hamburger menu to the right of the devices on the Devices tab.
Created attachment 125904 [details] plasma-pa kcm on Plasma 5.18 On Plasma 5.18 there is a dropdown to select the device port in plasma-pa kcm Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1 Kernel Version: 5.5.2-arch2-2
Yep, this has since been implemented!