The Sound Menu

[ffe] No easy way to turn the sound menu on/off

Bug #829648 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas on 2011-08-19

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
The Sound Menu	Fix Released	High	Lars Karlitski	The Sound Menu 0.8.1.0
indicator-sound (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
unity-control-center (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

indicator-sound 0.7.6-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu Ocelot

1. Try to work out how to hide the sound menu.

What happens: There's no obvious way to do it (short of uninstalling the package).

What should happen: "At the bottom left corner of the System Settings “Sound” panel should be a checkbox, “Show sound volume in the menu bar”. It should be checked by default for a new user account. Whenever it is checked, the sound menu should be present in the menu bar." <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#presence>

[Reported by "Eustace" in <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/power-cog-icon-oneiric/#comment-291049247>.]

See original description

Related branches

lp:~charlesk/indicator-sound/visibility

Merged into lp:indicator-sound/fifth at revision 291

Conor Curran (community): Approve on 2012-01-26

lp:ubuntu/precise/indicator-sound

lp:~larsu/unity-control-center/add-sound-indicator-visible-checkbox

Merged into lp:unity-control-center at revision 12742

Sebastien Bacher: Needs Fixing on 2014-03-04

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2014-03-03

Superseded for merging into lp:~ubuntu-desktop/unity-control-center/trunk

Ubuntu Desktop: Pending requested 2014-03-03

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lp:~larsu/indicator-sound/honor-visible

Merged into lp:indicator-sound/14.04 at revision 418

Sebastien Bacher: Approve on 2014-03-03

PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration) on 2014-03-03

lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/indicator-sound

lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/unity-control-center

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2011-08-19

description:

updated

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) on 2011-08-19

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2011-10-21

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Medium
assignee:	nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2011-12-18

Changed in indicator-sound:
importance:	Medium → High

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2011-12-18

description:

updated

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-01-19

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → charles (charlesk)
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2012-01-24

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	Triaged → In Progress
assignee:	Conor Curran (cjcurran) → charles (charlesk)

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2012-01-26

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
milestone:	none → 0.8.1.0

Revision history for this message

Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2012-02-03:

How will we get it back once removed? Where will be the option for that?

Revision history for this message

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-02-06:

Charles, the merge done there could probably benefit from the tweaks you did from the bluetooth one, i.e drop the schemas checking, it's not required since the schemas is part of the application, also using g_settings_bind

Omer, if you read the wiki pointed the checkbox will be in the control center which will be available even if the indicator is not there

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2012-02-13

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → In Progress

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-02-14:

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-sound - 0.8.1.0-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-sound (0.8.1.0-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - No easy way to turn the sound menu on/off (lp: #829648)
    - Avoid spawning notification daemon at startup (lp: #912150)
    - Creation of album-art-cache folder (lp: #799383)
    - schema id & path are inconsistent with other indicators (lp: #914377)
  * debian/patches/correct_ldflags_use.patch:
    - typo fix in ldflags use
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:46:41 +0100

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Christian Giordano (nuthinking) wrote on 2012-02-15:

How often is the case someone doesn't need the sound menu? What are the reasons behind this need?

"Try to work out how to hide the sound menu" is not a problem.

If the problem is "too many indicators visible", different other options can be taken and we have already solutions for it (see group indicators). Our sound menu is such a powerful feature which should probably be kept always visible.

Revision history for this message

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2012-03-09:

Nobody knows how often anyone does anything with Ubuntu, so it would be unreasonable to cite that as a reason not to implement this particular setting.

Use cases include:
* A PC at an Internet cafe, which therefore has no speakers.
* A point-of-sale terminal where the only sound is a beep, so it's not helpful to change volume frequently (or at all).
* My brother-in-law who has an old Mac in the garage solely for playing music, so the only volume control he needs is the one in the music player itself.

I wrote "1. Try to work out how to hide the sound menu" not as a problem, but as the step to reproduce the bug.

The sound menu is *already* a "group indicator", so hand-waving "group indicators" does not solve anything. If you have a specific alternative suggestion, then present it. But if it's inconsistent with the method of turning off the clock menu and the battery menu, then that will be a strike against it.

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2012-03-16

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Charles Kerr (charlesk) → nobody

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2014-02-25

affects:

gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → unity-control-center (Ubuntu)

Lars Karlitski (larsu) on 2014-03-03

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	Fix Released → In Progress
assignee:	Charles Kerr (charlesk) → Lars Uebernickel (larsu)
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → In Progress

Revision history for this message

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2014-03-03:

We have similar controls for battery/bluetooth/datetime, asking for a ffe for sound so we have consistency accross the indicators for the LTS (that's a small code change)

summary:

- No easy way to turn the sound menu on/off
+ [ffe] No easy way to turn the sound menu on/off

Revision history for this message

Iain Lane (laney) wrote on 2014-03-04:

Ok, this seems small and not likely to cause problems - please get it uploaded asap.

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2014-03-04

Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-03-05:

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-sound - 12.10.2+14.04.20140305-0ubuntu1

---------------
indicator-sound (12.10.2+14.04.20140305-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

[ Lars Uebernickel ]
* Honor com.canonical.indicator.sound visible (LP: #829648)
-- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:44:14 +0000

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-03-05:

This bug was fixed in the package unity-control-center - 14.04.3+14.04.20140305.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity-control-center (14.04.3+14.04.20140305.1-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

[ Lars Uebernickel ]
* Add "Show sound volume in the menu bar" check box (LP: #829648)
-- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:48:43 +0000

Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Charles Kerr (charlesk) on 2014-03-05

Changed in indicator-sound:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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