[pulseaudio-discuss] pavucontrol: Allow volume adjustment of apps that play sounds only briefly

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 19.11.2012 13:48, Arun Raghavan pisze:
> On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 18:25 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> This was originally posted on Red Hat Bugzilla [1]:
>> Skype makes sounds when friends log off, log on, and other times.  The
>> sounds skype makes are played for only a second.  pavucontrol lists
>> skype for that brief period.  This is not enough time to change the
>> volume at which skype makes those sounds.  Make this possible.
>>
>> Can anything be done about this? TIA.
> 
> The GNOME and pavucontrol UIs do actually expose event sound volumes
> regardless of whether an event sound is actually playing. Unfortunately,
> the Skype folks just tag all their streams as phone streams (even the
> event sounds), so that volume does not apply. The only real fix for this
> at the moment is to reduce the volume on a Skype call (and yes, this
> does suck, but there isn't anything we can do about this).

I think it was fixed in 4.1. At least event sounds don't mute the music
players anymore.

> 
> Tangentially, it might actually be nice to expose a few more roles than
> just events (I'm thinking phone and music) in pavucontrol at least. It's
> what phone UIs do, and is quite sensible, IMO.
> 
> -- Arun
> 
Regards,
Julian