https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499891
Steve Therrien <kdeb...@stevetherrien.ca> changed:
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--- Comment #15 from Steve Therrien <kdeb...@stevetherrien.ca> ---
The implementation for showing the icon seems to be whether the application has
indicated its intent to play audio, not whether it's actually producing audio.
Here are some situations I've noticed over the last few days:
(1) Launch Kdenlive and wait a few seconds. The audio icon shows in the panel
even when nothing's happening.
(2) I view my home security cameras in Firefox in a separate profile. There's
no actual audio stream in the videos, and Firefox's audio indicator icon in the
tab correctly doesn't show, but the panel thinks there is.
(3) We use Outlook Online at work, which I always have open in a Firefox tab.
Sometimes when I get an email, I'll get the audible notification along with the
panel icon, but that panel icon won't always go away until I close or reload
the tab.
(4) The icon appears on every instance of an application in the panel, even if
only one window is playing audio.
Firefox knows whether the tab is really playing audio and only shows its icon
indicator when accurate, but presumably Plasma can't know that, and incorrectly
assumes audio is playing when it thinks the application could be sending audio.
I don't disagree with the original MR's intent of adding an option to make the
indicator read only, but I find it distracting when my panel tells me an
application is playing audio when it really isn't.
The heuristic approach Plasma uses is too simple. It may technically be correct
[that the icon's application has an open audio stream], and may even be the
best approach currently available, but it's prone to false positives and hurts
the user experience; it's communicating something to the user that's
misleading.
In my opinion, the option to hide the audio indicator in the panel should be
restored, until, at the very least, Plasma can accurately know which "icon" the
audio is coming from (and whether there really is audio).
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