Microphone mute button doesn't work in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and 14.04

[Tim]

On 14/03/14 06:55, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 19:14 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:04:36PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:54:57AM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>>>> I am not sure whether this is a Ubuntu GNOME or general Ubuntu problem
>>>> but the microphone mute button on my Thinkpad T430S button does not work
>>>> in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 and 14.04.
>> Summary of private conversation (taken off-list by Christian because he
>> thought it was becoming off-topic for the ubuntu-gnome list): it's a
>> bug in gnome-settings-daemon 3.8, where it was ignoring XF86AudioMicMute
>> keypresses.  This was fixed in gnome-settings-daemon 3.9.2 (commit
>> 3a8beaaf in case anyone wants to backport the fix).
>>
>> I'm not sure if this bug affects stock Ubuntu.  14.04 still has
>> gnome-settings-daemon 3.8, but they switched to unity-settings-daemon
>> for Unity sessions, right?  Does anyone know if u-s-d handles
>> XF86AudioMicMute?
> The bug affects Gnome 14.04 also. Just tried with a daily. 
>>> I've a ThinkPad X220.  The mic mute button works fine in Ubuntu GNOME 13.10.
>> That's because I've enabled the gnome3-team/gnome3 PPA and upgraded to
>> gnome-settings-daemon 3.10.
> Yes, I can see that I still have gnome-settings-daemon 3.8 in Ubuntu
> GNOME 14.04 Beta 1. Will this be the version of gnome-settings-daemon
> shipping with release? Since the mic mute button works in Fedora 20,
> Manjaro GNOME and Suse GMOME, all with newer gnome-settings-daemon I am
> hoping Ubuntu GNOME will follow and not stick with the old version like
> it looks like stock Ubuntu is doing.
Was hoping to get it updated to 3.10, but probably now too late.
>> Marius Gedminas