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[Selene Scriven <selene.scriven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Marco F wrote on 02/07/14 19:30:
> > is it already possible (or planned) to have a sound setting 
> > that makes the phone silent? I know there is a global volume 
> > slider but this one also mutes the alarm...
> 
> As far as I know, nobody is working on implementing Silent Mode.
> 
> Last August, some of us collaborated on a description of the work that
> would be necessary to implement it. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SilentMode>

Isn't Silent Mode kind of a requirement for anyone who uses their 
phone in public?  For example, at a theater?

The single best feature on my old Treo was that it had a physical 
switch to kill sound.  The lockscreen slide-to-mute function on 
Android is almost as nice.


-- Selene