Sound level icon is inconsistent with gnome-settings-daemon notifications

Bug #748805 reported by Dylan McCall
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

This is easy to reproduce and tough to describe, so I'll just let you do that.
Adjust the volume using hardware controls. Note the difference between indicator-sound's menu icon and gnome-settings-daemon's notification icon. This is particularly evident around 30%

This bug has been around for a while (I could have sworn it was reported, but I can't find it), but it's especially prominent in Natty because the notification bubble appears to be triggered when one adjusts the volume with the mouse wheel over the menu, too. This puts the two conflicting icons exactly where the user is looking.

The set of available icons is consistent, so it looks like either gnome-settings-daemon or indicator-sound just needs to change its numbers a little.

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote :

Okay, I am attaching a branch that fixes this. It's my first time patching a patch (or using quilt), but hopefully I did it right :)
I decided to change our patch for gnome-settings-daemon, since the existing stuff was a little complex and it wouldn't look pretty inside indicator-sound. (I assume the settings daemon patch inherits that complexity from the original overlay, which had a fancy fading effect). With that said, the current gnome-settings-daemon patch is probably more consistent with upstream Gnome, so if there is a valid reason to do that here we should patch indicator-sound instead.

I discovered that the issue with indicator-sound's notification is unrelated: it generates a notification based on the previous state, instead of the new state. Filing a new bug report for it…

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Lars Karlitski (larsu) wrote :

Ah, neat observation. This seems to be fixed in 13.10.

(Feel free to reopen if this is still an issue for you.)

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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