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It would be nice if muting kmix will fade out the volume quickly instead of just stopping sound output. I think it can be small nice touch. Unmute will then quickly fade the volume back in. Of course this should happen without actually affecting the volume slider. To make it even smoother the tray icon can fade as the volume fades into the muted icon.

EDIT:
Fifoxtasy adds a better explanation of how and why:
"a 150ms logarithmic fade in/out - it's almost instant but at the same time smooth. shorter times are barely noticeable even if you pay attention. but it still sounds smoother, nicer and is easier on the ears."

fade in and out on mute would be nice. but the fading should be very short, in the end what you want to do is mute the sound. 500ms max, less will probably be better. i would suggest 250ms.

yeah +1 to your idea, I like it - it would be a nice enhancement in our great KDE

When I mute I want the sound to mute and not continue playing for some time after

aapgorilla wrote:When I mute I want the sound to mute and not continue playing for some time after

But this time is measured in milliseconds...
just sayin'

people here were talking of 250-500ms that almost a second.

If you don't want it, don't enable it (or disable it depending on if it gets made default or not)

++Faded mute. It is consistent with interface animations coming with 4.4.

Works if it is an option.

But I personally hate most kind of animation or fade-in fade-outs. Because they harm the promptness of the UI.

I'd like my computer to do everything "instantly" without any lag, like a well-trained soldier.

It can follow a logarithmic fade out. That way it's fast. It should be almost instant as well. When your listening to loud rock music or have a noisy movie it sounds very abrupt if everything just stops.

There should be a sweet spot where it's fast enough to feel responsive yet slow enough to not sound abrupt.

@pansz : I suggest you just give it a try before you disagree with it.

I would definitely only want this is an option. When I mute I want it to mute, but I understand other people might want. Especially if I get a really loud, sudden sound by accident.

I agree it would be a nice OPTION, but only if it was an OPTION.

It should be user adjustable, give the option for stop immediately and up to 1 sec fade out with options in between the two.

When listening to music I do think a quick fade-out/fade-in on pause/play would sound better than an abrupt stop. So maybe just implement this feature in Amarok.

There are many instances where I just want to stop all sound without any delay whatsoever.

So I vote for this as an option, but not as the default.

I don't have much against FADING IN from mute, but I'm against fading out on mute if it's not a configurable option. The ideal solution would be to have both as an option, and second best would be to have neither, as things currently are.

Imagine your hypothetical friend is watching a porno knowing that nobody is home and then hears the door open. If it took a while to fade out on mute, the people interrupting his short moment of bliss might hear horrifying sounds of ravaging *** episodes, and might think that your friend is doing something as morally reproachable as watching a porno!

maybe logarithmic fade in/out is better than linear.
try a 150ms logarithmic fade in/out - it's almost instant but at the same time smooth. shorter times are barely noticeable even if you pay attention. but it still sounds smoother, nicer and is easier on the ears.

Fifoxtasy has the same idea that I have. It's so quick that it's barely noticable that a fade is happening. It just adds some polish. Fades should not take long, that makes things feel sluggish. With a 150 ms delay as mentioned above before you think of clicking again the sound will already be muted.

molecule-eye: Your "hypothetical friend" will be safe.