On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> ... I propose we require flat volumes to be
> temporarily disabled in Fedora 24 and future Fedora releases until the
> issue has been fixed.
>
> We were planning to vote on this at the working group meeting today,
> but ran out of time, so working group members should vote here. I am
> obviously +1.
>
> This issue is tracked here:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265267
+1
It's almost like Pulse Audio flat volumes needs to be pinned to e.g.
80% for all apps out of the box to avoid the overvolume problem, until
the user opts into an override to permit 100%. For a wayward
application being permitted to use 100% volume is just undeniably bad,
except maybe by the not so insignificant number of clubbers who've
already had their hearing 50% damaged already, and therefore don't
recognize the problem. Huh? Volume? Oh, yeah whatever, seems fine to
me. Or did you say you wanted to go to lunch?
If there's a way for PA flat volume to be enhanced in this fashion
(seems like mainly a UI feature that may not even involve PA itself),
that might be a better work around than not implementing flat volumes.
It'd be more consistently fail safe anyway than either the current or
legacy behaviors.
--
Chris Murphy