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

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 07:29 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> W dniu 19.11.2012 13:48, Arun Raghavan pisze:
> > 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.

But the event sound volume controls in pavucontrol etc. still don't
affect Skype's event sounds? A snippet of verbose pulseaudio log showing
how the Skype events look nowadays would probably be useful.

-- 
Tanu