I’m using the Qt5, and KDE: Extra, Applications, KF5 repos, and I really like the plasma5’s direction, and updates. For example the system tray entries is more beautiful by every week (okay, about every month). And thanks wofli323 for your KF5 repo, the dolphin’s Baloo dependency problem was really bugging me. (Could there be an official Applications repo based on KF5, or will the existing one switch sometime soon?)
The problem I have is with the plasma5-pa package from the official KF5 repo, which provides the new widget for volume control.
First, it doesn’t load automatically - only blank space greets me at it’s place. If I disable the volume entry in system tray settings, apply it, and then reenable it, it shows up.
Additionally, only the main volume gets its slider, the pulseaudio “clients” (applications) doesn’t get updated with any launched application.
I removed kmix just in case, but it doesn’t solved anything of course. Does anybody seeing the same?
Thanks in advance for the help, I thought I should ask before reporting this bug.
Well, it definitely would be possible to build KDE:Applications against KDE:Frameworks5 and KDE:Qt5 for 13.2 too (some things like KDE PIM don’t build for 13.2 anyway because the KF5 included is too old), but you’d have to ask the KDE maintainers for that.
The best place is probably the opensuse-kde mailinglist: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/
The problem I have is with the plasma5-pa package from the official KF5 repo, which provides the new widget for volume control.
First, it doesn’t load automatically - only blank space greets me at it’s place. If I disable the volume entry in system tray settings, apply it, and then reenable it, it shows up.
That’s unrelated to the plasma5-pa widget, it happens randomly with any widget.
Seems to be a bug in Qt5 or KF5 or Plasma somewhere, and is not really reproducible (and therefore not easy to fix) unfortunately.
Additionally, only the main volume gets its slider, the pulseaudio “clients” (applications) doesn’t get updated with any launched application.
I removed kmix just in case, but it doesn’t solved anything of course. Does anybody seeing the same?
Hm. It worked fine here when I tried it, but that was only a rudimentary test.
And having KMix running at the same time shouldn’t cause problems.
You do have PulseAudio activated I hope? It’s just a frontend for PA and doesn’t work without it.
And also check that you have alsa-plugins-pulse (and maybe the -32bit variant too) installed, so applications not supporting PulseAudio directly will work too.
Is it only specific applications that don’t show up, or all?
Hm, I explicitely tried it again now with a few applications (Dragonplayer, Amarok, VLC, and a few games) and all showed up.
But to avoid a misunderstanding here: you need to right-click on the applet and select “Audio Volume Settings” to get the list of running applications with their audio sliders.
The “normal” applet popup (i.e. when you left-click on it) only shows the master volume sliders (for playback and recording).
It should, with alsa-plugins-pulse (or alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit for 32bit applications on 64bit systems) installed.
That will re-route applications using alsa directly to PA instead.