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aleho / gnome-shell-volume-mixer

GNOME Shell Extension allowing separate configuration of PulseAudio devices
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/858/volume-mixer/
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Information on media player not updating. #19

Closed joatmor closed 6 years ago

joatmor commented 9 years ago

I use Rhythmbox along with two Gnome Shell Extensions - Media Player Indicator and Volume Mixer. Please note that I am running on Debian Jessie RC1 with Gnome Shell 3.14.1 and searching for usability bugs. In the area where Volume Mixer shows a slider for Rhythmbox it states the name of current song being played. Very nice. However, it does not update. Whenever I use Rhythmbox, Volume Mixer keeps indicating the first song I played. One thing to note is that the Media Player Indicator does update correctly. Also, I have the MediaServer2 D-Bus interface & the MPRIS D-Bus interface plugins for Rhythmbox enabled. All other plugins are disabled. Thank you for all you do.

Your Friend,

Len Huppe

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aleho commented 9 years ago

Yeah, I know about that problem.

Whenever Rhythmbox closes a stream and opens a new one everything is fine (like with manually selecting a song).

During Playback it just transitions to the next song and updates the stream info correctly (according to pavucontrol), but GSD doesn't provide any signals for stream updates.

There's just no simple way of knowing about stream updates at all (without patching GSD). I'll file a bug upstream, I guess.

joatmor commented 9 years ago

My apologies then for taking up your valuable time.

In times like this I wish that I had taken up software way back in 1980 instead of hardware. In that case I would be helping to create a patch instead of informing you of a bug that you already know about. Nowadays I am a health care worker and not much of software developer. However, I do seen to have a knack for spotting usability issues in software systems. In that case it is best that I try and spot them little buggers and raise a warning flag when I do. As for Rhythmbox I do like it ,but the reality is that it has some bugs. I really wish that I knew how to fix them.

Thank you for all that you do.

Your friend,

Len Huppe

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Alexander Hofbauer <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Yeah, I know about that problem.

Whenever Rhythmbox closes a stream and opens a new one everything is fine (like with manually selecting a song).

During Playback it just transitions to the next song and updates the stream info correctly (according to pavucontrol), but GSD doesn't provide any signals for stream updates.

There's just no simple way of knowing about stream updates at all (without patching GSD). I'll file a bug upstream, I guess.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/aleho/gnome-shell-volume-mixer/issues/19#issuecomment-73357636 .

aleho commented 9 years ago

Nah, you don't have to worry about my time at all. That's just one of my pet projects I occasionally devote some hours to.

Btw, bug filed upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744140

aleho commented 9 years ago

Patch got accepted upstream. Will take at least 3.20 to be in gnome-shell I guess.

aleho commented 6 years ago

Fixed some releases ago.