Show volume percentage in OSD

[M-HT]

When changing volume (using media keys) Cinnamon used to show icon, volume bar and volume percentage in the OSD, like this:

Now it only shows icon and volume bar, like this:

Can the volume percentage be also shown in the OSD ? It's much easier / practical to read the value instead of trying to guess it from the volume bar.

I hacked it by changing the method setLevel in file osdWindow.js. I inserted this line this.setLabel(value.toString() + ' %'); after the line if (this._level.visible) {. That's probably not the correct way to do it, but the OSD now looks like this for me:

[alxndr42]

Yes! It's now impossible to tell what your current setting is, in case you want change it and return to it later. Please return the percent values for usability/accessibility, both for audio volume and display brightness!

[Justin-Bieber]

Just came here to literally make this post. This is a regression. Please fix.

[alxndr42]

@M-HT Can you update the title/description to include display brightness as well? Thanks!

[adrian-m-nguyen]

Agreed! If the maintainers were concerned about screen space, they literally could've put the percentage on the right end of the OSD.

[adrian-m-nguyen]

osdWindow.js is located in /usr/share/cinnamon/js/ui, in case anyone's wondering. I had to reboot before the changes applied.

[Secret-chest]

This looks like a GNOME backport.

[claudiux]

The Enhanced Sound applet allows you to show the volume percentage in OSD with Cinnamon 6.4: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/306

See OSD options in the Sound tab of this applet's settings.

[adrian-m-nguyen]

Nicely done!

[alxndr42]

The percent value is also gone from the display brightness OSD, so this seems more like a systemic "designer(s) going overboard" issue.

[foxierra]

I find it a little curious that the community that constantly claims to “let users choose” is increasingly imposing its own way of doing or seeing things...
Please at least introduce an option in the settings such as “Show percentages”, in order to respect the Linux Mint philosophy of not disrupting its use from one update to the next (which is why I've been using this distribution for almost 10 years).

[adrian-m-nguyen]

Well said.

[claudiux]

These choices are explained here:
linuxmint/mint22.1-beta#4 (comment)

[alxndr42]

Not all people are the same. I'm happy for him that the current design fits his life perfectly, still doesn't make it work for me.