On 20 October 2015 at 19:10, Ben Boeckel <maths...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 19:01:54 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote: > > It might be interesting to look at how pulseaudio did it with > > flat-volumes. With flat-volumes enabled (the default nowadays except on > > Ubuntu), pulseaudio always has the global volume set to the highest level > > of an application and adjusts per-application volumes when the global > > volume changes. The effect is that setting one application to max will > just > > work. Adjusting the global volume manually changes all the application > > volumes rather than acting as final multiplier. > > > > In that scheme there is no multiplication with a global factor. Its > pretty > > simple and prevents some of the artifacts you would have if you have a > real > > global setting you factor in. > > > > > > Interesting for comparison at least. > > Yeah, but many apparently turn off flat-volumes because it is surprising > and has apparently blasted volumes up suddenly in certain instances. > > Fedora thread with further links here: > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-September/214720.html > > --Ben >
That sounds like a bug rather than a problem with the theory. Either way, I was just throwing it out there for comparison. I don't mind terribly much what solution is chosen. -- Maarten
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