On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:35 -0400, David Boles wrote: > Pulseaudio is supposed to allow you to set the volume level(s) of > various applications/output devices so that they can be different. > Music soft. Ta-Ta! loud. As well as others. What is not so functional > is the applications that are not yet able to mix with pulseaudio. To my mind, it goes about this the wrong way. A case in point: You're listening to your music at a reasonable level, and some annunciator fires off at full volume. Unfortunately, you can't do anything about that, as they're so quick to finish that you couldn't get to a volume control in time. And even if you did manage to reduce the volume while a long sample played, the next time the annunciator fires off it'll be at the default full volume, again. The things that make sounds, should control their own volumes, themselves. A volume control in your music player, not some external controller, should control its playback level, and not affect anything else. The system annunciators should have their own level in the appropriate control panel for the sounds (where you set which sounds will be heard, for which events, should also set the level). Other applications should have their own volume levels. The only sensible external control should be a master volume, one that you can crank up and down to make everything loud or quiet, in proportion to your listening environment, as well as be able to quickly mute everything when the phone rings. The whole idea of a "mixer panel" approach is alien to the average person who's never used a collection of equipment hooked up to a mixer. And it's made all the more worse by bad setups of the mixer (badly labelled controls, most controls needing to be run at maximum, etc.). About the only sensible place for using a mixer on the computer is for making recordings. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
