887633 - Ringer and notification volume setting needs separation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Settings, defect)

Description

[Andrew Truong [:feer56] [:andrewtruong] [:atruong]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

User story: User wants notification volume off but ringer off. 
This can't be done through settings. 
geeksphone keon

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

Need UX feedback.

Comment 2

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

UX, please nominate if this is a must fix for a given release.

Comment 3

[Stephany Wilkes]

Flagging Rob to clarify the expected behavior here. Did we expect to have separated/distinct volume for 1.3?

Comment 4

[guigs [:guigs] PST (please needinfo me!)]

This has also been reported in 1.1 could we file a new bug to decifer the difference to set all the 

Question: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/983076]

Current audio volume: 
There's multiple different settings for audio volume:

    audio.volume.content: Affects the "content" and "normal" audio channels. It's an integer between 0 and 15 where 0 means muted (but not paused).
    audio.volume.notification: Affects the "notification" and "ringer" channels. It's an integer between 0 and 15.
    audio.volume.alarm: Affects the "alarm" channel. It's an integer between 0 and 15.
    audio.volume.telephony: Affects the "telephony" channel. It's an integer between 0 and 5.
    audio.volume.bt_sco: Volume when bluetooth headset is plugged in. It's an integer between 0 and 15.' 

Take from https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/AudioChannels 


Two different ones are affected.

Comment 5

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Alive, can you provide more input in regards to this?  End users do seem to want to have a separation of the notification and ringer.

Andrew, also, did you mean ringer on and notification volume off?

Comment 6

[(inactive after 6/18) Alive Kuo [:alive]]

Notification and ringer is designed to be using the same volume settings to avoid too complex settings of volume channels.
This is agreed by UX but we could discuss again.

Comment 7

[Rob MacDonald [:robmac]]

(In reply to Stephany Wilkes from comment #3)
> Flagging Rob to clarify the expected behavior here. Did we expect to have
> separated/distinct volume for 1.3?

There was no plan to distinguish ringer from notification volume. FYI - In 1.5 we would like to allow users to customize sounds for various notifications... which means in some cases the user could select no alert sound at all.

Also flagging Harly as he's currently reviewing audio settings as part of the framework activities.

Comment 8

[Harly Hsu[:harly]]

I think this depends on whether we need to give the user the freedom to adjust ringer & notification volume separately.  If the answer is yes, we can just separate ringer & notification into two volume bar in Settings. If the answer is no, then what Rob said for 1.5 of allowing users to cutomize sounds may just to be enough for the users.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on