hi The only negative issue, although to me it's more of an oh, that's right moment, is that you can no longer adjust application volumes up beyond the master volume, only down, but that's kind of the idea. I do suggest, and I don't know how easy this would be to do, that sound application settings, such as gnome's control center, display volumes as percentages rather than arbitrary numbers. I'm smart enough to know that 65536 is somewhat equal to sorry, you've reached max, you can't go further, but to most people, they'll see taht and go huh? Mind you I'm blind, and there might be a percentage hidden somewhere. This is the case with the volume slider on the top bar, and I have to use orca's where am I functionality to read it. I then get output that looks like, volume slider 0.5 47 percent, as opposed to just volume slider 0.5. Thanks Kendell clark On 09/17/2015 04:30 PM, Major Hayden wrote: > On 09/17/2015 01:59 PM, Germano Massullo wrote: >> I found many users stories complaining about this default setting [2] [3] [4] and you can easily find other by searching "pulseaudio flat volumes". >> I completely agree with user gaggra comment at [3] >> >> <<This is an interesting issue because it is one of the rare times misbehaving software can /physically hurt you/. You would think that once that was understood, the design of this sort of behaviour would be treated in a very conservative, careful manner.>> >> >> Moreover this default setting can cause sound crackling [5]. > > I've experienced the crackling and deafening sounds as well (as referenced in my blog post). I've have zero issues for months after setting flat-volumes to 'no'. > > What are the negative aspects of setting flat-volumes = no? > > -- > Major Hayden > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct