#9913 NORM 1.5-sof: sugar frame speaker icon does not reflect volume hot key usage

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#9913: sugar frame speaker icon does not reflect volume hot key usage
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           Reporter:  Andy Pei  |       Owner:  sayamindu                         
               Type:  defect    |      Status:  assigned                          
           Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  1.5-software-later                
          Component:  sugar     |     Version:  1.5 Software Build os64 aka 10.1.0
         Resolution:            |    Keywords:                                    
        Next_action:  diagnose  |    Verified:  0                                 
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Comment(by pgf):

 Replying to [comment:7 sayamindu]:
 > I think this is being caused due to olpc-kbdshim handling the volume
 keys directly (we switched to this behaviour to allow users to set volume
 in GNOME).
 >
 > Paul, is there any way to disable this when sugar starts up ?
 >

 oops.  forgot to reply to this earlier.   there's no way currently to
 disable this just while sugar is running.  until recently the /usr/bin
 /olpc-volume script (which does the work for kbdshim) could have signalled
 the daemon that it should pass the volume keys along by returning failure,
 but we took this out to appease the screen-rotation gods.  we could put
 that back, and change olpc-rotate to always return true, to compensate.
 or something.

 but i sort of thouht the longer-term goal was for sugar to get out of the
 hardware-control business.  does SoaS control the volume on a non-XO?
 what will happen in the next version of sugar?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9913#comment:10>
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