SUMMARY In the icons-only task manager, on my setup the mute button is currently very small and hard to see, I end up clicking it by mistake fairly often. Muting programs isn't something I do very frequently, so using the "Mute" right-click menu is fine, however when the setting to display audio status icons is disabled, the contextual menu option to mute disappears as well. Request is to keep this menu option around when the icon is disabled instead of removing both. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add icons-only task manager 2. Disable setting that displays application sound status SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0 Qt Version: 5.14.1
Yeah, that's definitely a bug.
I've submitted a patch to fix this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27684
Git commit 3b2e4ddaa01ad067924f4efe0380bac1445232fa by Nate Graham. Committed on 27/02/2020 at 21:37. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.18'. [applets/taskmanager] Show PA-related features even when audio indicators are disabled Summary: There is a checkbox in the Task Manager settings with the text "Mark applications that play audio". Unchecking it does much more than no longer marking applications that play audio though; it disabled all PulseAudio-related features. This not only makes the label inaccurate, but it also seems undesirable; a user could quite reasonably wish to disable the audio indicators while still using PulseAudio-related functionality through the Task Manager (e.g. muting an app from the context menu). This patch makes the setting in question really and truly only show and hide the audio indicator icon on the Task; other PA-related functionality is always loaded when available. Test Plan: Open an app or window that can play audio and start playing audio with it Make sure that audio indicators are visible Right-click on the task and see that there's {nav Mute} item (provided by PA Configure the Task Manager and disable audio indicators See that the audio indicator icon is gone from the task Right-click on the task and see that the {nav Mute} item is still there Configure the Task Manager again and re-enable audio indicators See that the audio indicator icon re-appears on the task FIXED-IN: 5.18.3 Reviewers: #plasma Subscribers: plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27684 M +7 -4 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/Task.qml M +3 -1 applets/taskmanager/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/3b2e4ddaa01ad067924f4efe0380bac1445232fa