Hi all, Now that we are talking about flat volumes again (but I don't want to hijack the other thread), I would like to present another alternative to fix the problems with flat-volumes. The idea is that all apps, by default, operate in non-flat volume mode. This means all volume control done from the app is relative to the master volume. Privileged apps can see flat-volumes and thus (indirectly) change the master volume. One such privileged app is the volume control applet but it could be possible to manually enable trusted apps (maybe with a switch in the volume control next to the app stream). I made a little hack to let you try this, gnome-control-center is a hardcoded privileged app but you can see how we can store that in the database later or how we can hook this into the security framework. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~wtay/pulseaudio/commit/?h=flat-volume-privilege-hack&id=1b203fe6bcc8bba1db1911fd4dbf225f36a6dbb9 I like this idea because: 1) it does not need any new api or changes to apps 2) sets a default that will not cause 100% master volume with misbehaving apps 3) has the master/app volume separation that people understand and that is also exposed in apps (volume in totem, master in gnome-shell header). 4) still exposes the flat-volume model if needed, which is IMHO the only way to sanely increase the volume of just 1 single app (when it needs adjusting the master volume). 5) minimal code changes. What do you think? Wim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20151019/6eef1229/attachment.html>
