Public bug reported: >From the Sound design for Touch (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#Phone), we need to change the default behaviour of the indicator in order to be able to change volume per audio roles, and not only the master volume.
On touch the master volume will always be at 100%, and each media role will have its own volume values, so we can have a different volume level for multimedia, ringtone and alarms. This can be done using the streamrestore module in pulseaudio (via another dbus entry point that is only enabled on touch atm): http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/DBus/StreamRestore/ There's also a sample script on python that can be used to set/get volume per roles: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jusa/pulseaudio-utils/master/pasr.py And the current roles supporter by touch are: multimedia, alert, phone and alarm. ** Affects: indicator-sound (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: Confirmed ** Tags: rtm14 touch-2014-09-25 ** Tags added: rtm14 touch-2014-09-25 ** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368827 Title: [touch] indicator needs to be able to control volume per audio role To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1368827/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs