Hello, My KDE WM started two volume controls after recent upgrade: kde-apps/kmix kde-plasma/plasma-pa I installed kmix manually (it is also getting pulled by kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta if installed), plasma-pa is pulled by kde-plasma/plasma-meta[pulseaudio] Could you add "either" condition in kde-plasma/plasma-meta, something like: pulseaudio? 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Possible, but KDE ultimately recommends plasma-pa for pulseaudio and kmix is nothing but a legacy mixer at this point. kmix is not in your system tray unless you started it manually, once, anyway, you can close it just as well.
Im probably very conservative, but i prefer kmix really. It's not so bulky and all levels are positioned vertically
The way I see it, $summary describes a minor runtime inconvenience. This is easily solved by setting "Audio Volume" to "Disabled" via System Tray Settings -> Entries.
To elaborate further: kde-plasma/plasma-meta is bound to favor plasma-pa, as per your example: || ( kde-plasma/plasma-pa kde-apps/kmix[pulseaudio] ) When installing kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta after Plasma, which I would expect is the natural order, kmix still ends up being installed, unless the ebuild would do the same as plasma-meta; but plasma-pa is useless without Plasma, and suddenly we begin blurring the lines. Existing plasma-pa users who have never started kmix, thus are unaware of the situation, may suddenly end up with no audio volume control in their systray after a --depclean. So, while the suggested change takes care of your usecase, it leads to other problems. What else could we do: in kmix' pkg_postinst(), if use pulseaudio && has_version kde-plasma/plasma-pa && elog "do this if you prefer kmix over Plasma's audio volume controls..."
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=0c0019b88969e7e75249e833343c0384b634a72c commit 0c0019b88969e7e75249e833343c0384b634a72c Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-10-03 13:48:02 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-10-03 13:48:02 +0000 kde-apps/kmix: Add postinst message in global IUSE=pulseaudio context Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/791889 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.26, Repoman-3.0.3 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> kde-apps/kmix/kmix-21.08.49.9999.ebuild | 12 ++++++++++++ kde-apps/kmix/kmix-9999.ebuild | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/kde.git/commit/?id=27c563e1bb67d0e98ccf07439152b92a79175b94 commit 27c563e1bb67d0e98ccf07439152b92a79175b94 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-06-17 10:07:51 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-06-17 10:08:26 +0000 kde-apps/kmix: Disable autostart by default, amend postinst msg Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/791889 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> .../files/kmix-23.04.2-autostart_disable.patch | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++ kde-apps/kmix/kmix-23.04.49.9999.ebuild | 12 ++++++++--- kde-apps/kmix/kmix-9999.ebuild | 12 ++++++++--- 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6b3dfd12876dfe97da86627ae1d52fb020177e15 commit 6b3dfd12876dfe97da86627ae1d52fb020177e15 Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-06-17 10:07:51 +0000 Commit: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-06-17 10:19:47 +0000 kde-apps/kmix: Disable autostart by default, amend postinst msg Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/791889 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> .../files/kmix-23.04.2-autostart_disable.patch | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++ kde-apps/kmix/kmix-23.04.2.ebuild | 12 ++++++++--- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
