On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 15:51 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 17.09.15 20:59, Germano Massullo (germano.massullo@xxxxxxxxx) > wrote: > > > Today I had a scary experience with the audio of my computer. > > I was listening to music with Amarok, using my headphones... The > > KMix > > volume level was ~ 35%. When I logged into a video conference > > application, the volume suddenly reached the 100%. I was shocked, > > having > > the maximum audio level shooted in your ears is a painful > > experience. > > The conference application that triggered PulseAudio pushing volume > > to > > maximum level probably should have never asked the system for a > > 100% > > audio level, but on the other hand, PulseAudio should never allow > > an > > application to make such sudden changes. > > To avoid that, you have to set > > flat-volumes = no > > in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf > > This is a non-sensical request. If an app uses the mixer APIs to set > the volume of something to very loud, that's what happens. Flat > volumes have nothing to do with that. > > I mean, the app you are using shouldn't set the volume like this, and > that's the key here. If you turn off flat volumes you win about > nothing, you just work around this specific app. Soon the next app > will come along and play the same game with the actual device volume, > and you won *zero*. > > Don't mix flat volumes with misbheaving apps. Turning off flat > volumes > is a hack around the broken apps at best, and completely pointless.. For better or worse, misbehaving apps are a reality that is probably not going to go away... I think we need to have a volume control approach that is at least somewhat tolerant against such apps and has some safeguards. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
