[bug] [1.1.9.28] Switching ambience changes general sound settings

asked 2015-09-29 23:46:13 +0200

szobi
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updated 2015-09-29 23:51:45 +0200

To my understanding we have to sound settings

General sound settings which you can set in system setting > sounds and feedback
Ambience sound settings which you can choose in ambience settings

Ambience sound settings specializes the general sound settings. That means if there is no sound setting in the current ambience, the general sound settings apply, and if there is a sound setting in the current ambience, this sound applies.

In SailfishOS 1.1.9.28 switching to an ambience with sound setting changes some of the selected sounds in the general sound setting. You can reproduce that by switching between two ambiences with different sounds selected and have a look at the general sound settings after each switch.

The problem with that is that ambiences which do not specialize general sound settings uses sounds depending on the recent used ambience with sound settings and not the sounds which I selected in general sound settings.

The expected behavior is that switching to an ambience with its own sound selection doesn't change general sound selection.

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Is this a duplicate of https://together.jolla.com/question/112191/ambience-logic-actions-vs-modes/ ?

ssahla ( 2015-09-29 23:51:16 +0200 )edit

@ssahla Thanks for the linked question. It is targeted on the same issue. But to my mind the current behavior is a bug. Especially since not all selected general sounds are affected.

szobi ( 2015-09-30 00:01:34 +0200 )edit

answered 2015-09-30 00:24:53 +0200

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updated 2015-09-30 00:26:37 +0200

It is a feature by design, and iirc was actually something requested. You just need to accept the "action" behaviour of ambiences we got now and set them up accordingly. I for one use a set of ambiences to change tones and a dummy background ambience to set the background. How it works is completely changed from 1.1 though. No more settings that never apply to anything but newly created ambiences or while not using any ambience favourites.

So to speak, people using ambience favourites never had general sound settings before 2.0.

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It is described in the release notes

Tanghus ( 2015-09-30 01:16:09 +0200 )edit

Thanks for pointing this out, this makes this post even more irrelevant.

chemist ( 2015-09-30 10:38:45 +0200 )edit

I don't like the behaviour very much though. I think that if an action isn't defined in an ambience, it should be taken from system settings.

Tanghus ( 2015-09-30 10:49:16 +0200 )edit

Thank you for clarification. I also don't like it that way. I'm with Tanghus at this point.

szobi ( 2015-09-30 11:17:37 +0200 )edit

The previous setup was even worse so at least this is progress. As you never could do this before, how about using ambiences as pure volume and background envelopes and use the settings for ringtones? If you have a better idea on how ambiences and general settings could work together for the majority (please no corner cases of your own) then Jolla is for sure listening. On the other side, as general settings did nothing but set a default for new ambiences, the new functionality is just something you need to wrap your head around and forget about what it was like before. Rethink how you achieve what you want with the current implementation and tell at which points you run into a dead end.

chemist ( 2015-09-30 11:52:26 +0200 )edit

[bug] [1.1.9.28] Switching ambience changes general sound settings

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