Bug#729067: [phonon] App volume controls have no function

[Schrober <franzschrober@yahoo.de>]

Package: phonon
Version: 4:4.7.0.0-2
Severity: normal

The volume control in amarok seems to have no use at all. I've tested the VLC 
and Gstreamer backend and it is not changing my volume at all. I would have 
expect that the pulseaudio volume is changed for amarok but nothing happens at 
all. Also switching the song doesn't seem to do anything (this was recommended 
in some forums).

This also happens with the KDE dragonplayer. BUT the volume controls in VLC 
(the video player) work as expected and the pulseaudio app volume controls are 
moving when I modify the volume in the video player.

Any hints how this can be debugged further?


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.11-1-amd64

Debian Release: jessie/sid
  500 unstable        http.debian.net 
    1 unstable        www.deb-multimedia.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-=================
libphonon4             (>= 4:4.7.0.0-2) | 4:4.7.0.0-2
debconf                       (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.52
 OR debconf-2.0                         | 
phonon-backend-vlc                      | 0.7.0-1
 OR phonon-backend                      | 


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests                      (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-===========
phonon-backend-gstreamer                | 4:4.7.0.0-1
phonon-backend-mplayer                  | 
phonon-backend-vlc                      | 0.7.0-1