20.10.2015 12:37, Wim Taymans wrote: > Removing the flat volume from pulseaudio and moving it into the mixer would > make it hard to impossible to implement the following items: > > 1) give some apps flat volumes and others not. I agree completely that it would become impossible. However, I was under the impression that the validity of this use case is disputable. > 2) raise the volume of just one stream in the mixer without affecting > others. Since the mixer is not running inside pulseaudio, it can't > atomically update both the master volume and the volumes of all other > streams Indeed, the update becomes non-atomic. This is a valid objection. -- Alexander E. Patrakov