On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Specifically, iOS's "Ringer and alerts" slider is followed by a "Change > with Buttons" switch. When off, it has a caption: "The volume of the > ringer and alerts will not be affected by the volume buttons." When on, > the caption is: "The volume of the ringer and alerts can be adjusted > using the volume buttons." > > Until now I had never understood this setting, because none of that text > answered the vital question: What is the effect of the off state? When > the switch is off, what *do* the volume buttons adjust? From testing it > now, it seems that when it's off, the volume buttons always change media > volume. When it's on, the volume buttons change media volume when media > is playing, ringer/alert volume when media isn't playing, like the > specced-but-unimplemented Ubuntu behavior. > > Anyway, I don't think System Settings is relevant to this bug, because > you shouldn't have to switch to System Settings and back while playing a > game. > I agree, I was thinking more along the lines of you set the alert volume ahead of time that would be good, but I agree, if it's too loud for a given context this is problematic. I did, however, just notice on iOS that a game uses the same volume level as the music playback level. If you're in a game and set the volume, then switch back to the music app, the music app uses this new volume. This is exactly how it should be for Ubuntu Touch. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498466 > > Title: > Default audio role for volume controls isn't the role that sound > effects use > > Status in Canonical System Image: > New > Status in qtubuntu-media package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > 1. Play a game that just plays occasional sound effects, not music. > 2. Try to change the volume of the sound effects. > > What should happen: You can. > What actually happens: You can't unless you time it exactly right, > pressing the volume controls while the sound effect is playing. > > For brief sounds (less than a second or so), like sound effects in a > game or a messaging app, you probably won't be fast enough to change > their volume while they're playing. So, you need to be able to change > their volume even when they aren't playing. > > If you want to be able to do this with the hardware volume buttons, > that means that by default (when no sound is playing), the hardware > volume buttons should control the role that sound effects use. > > So, the current design is that this default role for volume controls > should be "alert", and that sound effects should use "alert". > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#primary-output> > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work at the moment because the Qt > SoundEffect API <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml- > multimedia.html#soundeffect> produces sounds that use do not use the > "alert" role, but rather "multimedia". Because this is not the default > role, the hardware volume buttons control the volume of sound effects > only during the brief moments when the sound effects are actually > playing. > > I see three ways to resolve this bug: > A. Decide that you should not, in fact, be able to change the volume of > sound effects using the hardware buttons when sound effects aren't playing. > B. Combine the "alert" and "multimedia" roles. That would have the > drawback that you couldn't change sound effect volume independent of music > that was playing in the background (but maybe that's not a big deal). > C. Change the SoundEffect API implementation so that it uses the "alert" > role by default. > > (This is a followup to bug 1478506.) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1498466/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1498466 Title: Default audio role for volume controls isn't the role that sound effects use To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1498466/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
