Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> writes: > to, 2010-01-14 kello 21:54 +0100, Lennart Poettering kirjoitti: >> On Wed, 06.01.10 05:18, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) wrote: >> > Then at some point I switch back to the headphones. m-d-r >> > restores the sink reference volume to 0 dB and m-s-r doesn't do >> > anything. Now the music stream has also absolute volume 0 dB, which is >> > 10 dB more than what I want the headphones to have. When I changed the >> > volume while using the speakers, it shouldn't have affected the volume >> > that I get when using the headphones. >> >> Yes, but that is expected. If you change the stream volume you change >> the stream volume. if you change the device volume you change the >> device volume. > > But it's so tempting to use the volume slider in Rhythmbox ;) > > Now that you have convinced me to some degree about that the device > volume should be the usual volume to adjust, I guess my biggest problem > are the volume sliders in individual applications. I believe they cause > problems/inconveniences for many users (I'm going here solely by my own > intuition; I don't remember hearing any actual complaints). > > Do you possibly have the opinion that applications should get rid of the > volume sliders, or make them control the device volume? That wouldn't make sense. If I pull the volume slider in Rhythmbox, I expect it to only affect the sound coming from Rhythmbox. I'm not sure I understood what the problem was. If you move a stream to a device with the volume cranked up, you shouldn't be surprised that it gets louder. -- David K?gedal
