On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Rex Dieter rdieter@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.