----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 18:00 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > There is danger to the ears if an application assumes that 100% > > volume > > is a safe volume and blindly sets its volume to 100% without user > > input. But that only affects that application - one application's > > misbehavior never affects another application. > > That's definitely not correct. With flat volumes, applications can and > do set the system volume to 100%. I've received numerous complaints > about this. It's particularly frustrating when watching YouTube videos, > since YouTube sets the system volume to 1 when starting a video. We are > still waiting for some promised "browsers API" in PulseAudio to fix > this easily. > > I think it's telling that this thread is full of complaints about flat > volumes, with no supporters. Also, Ubuntu does not seem to be getting > any complaints about the lack of flat volumes. :) Given that I don't want per-app volumes either, not sure that my opinion is required to choose between 2 schemes that are per-app. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
