[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #684: Req: popup asking for permission to unmute each time sound starts playing (to avoid embarrasing moments in meetings)

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#684: Req: popup asking for permission to unmute each time sound starts playing
(to avoid embarrasing moments in meetings)
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  Reporter:  lukehutch    |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new    
 Milestone:               |   Component:  daemon 
Resolution:               |    Keywords:         
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Comment(by coling):

 Personally, I think this is a fairly niche use case, but it shouldn't be
 too hard to implement as a module. The problem IMO is that the perfect
 mechanism to implement this feedback system is libnotify, but this will
 simply break on Ubuntu who have taken it upon themselves to implement and
 promote an implementation of this spec that does not include action
 callback (e.g. user feedback). Personally I absolutely disagree with this
 approach but hey ho, I'm not an Ubuntu user and I wouldn't cripple my
 applications due to poor design decisions. More info here:
 http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/desktop-notifications-and-user-interaction/

 That said, it should be possible to integrate some kind of message
 *display* on Ubuntu even if all other distros have a nice "unpause" button
 which would probably be enough considering most laptops (where this module
 would be useful) have a mute button on them anyway and people could opt
 just to press it with their visual reminder.

 I have got a half finished module which wraps up "notifiying" the user via
 libnotify, but due to various issues with glib mainloop integration for
 modules, I've not finalised this. Lennart any news on this?

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