Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 14:04 -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  Ubuntu's Unity now allow having the volume slider on the desktop go 
> > all
> >  the way up to above 100% without having to go into the sound 
> > settings.
> >  It would really like to see an option like that in Gnome-Shell as 
> > well.
> >  Since 100% is only 2/3 up what is possibly to set I often have to go
> >  into sound setting to get it loud enough my laptops and a couple of
> >  desktop systems as well.
>
> This is a UI failure. It doesn't make sense to set sound over 100%. It
> sounds like GNOME Shell is wrong to cap the sound level lower than it
> can actually go, but Settings is also wrong for presenting the max 
> sound
> level as less than 100%.

It has been like this for years in Ubuntu and GNOME for that matter. 
The desktop slider can not go beyond 100% which is about 2/3 up in 
sound settings. There's been many discussions around it:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/51156/how-can-i-reach-over-100-volume-with-a-keyboard-shortcut

http://askubuntu.com/questions/41348/why-can-the-volume-go-higher-than-100

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7555/volume-up-down-function-keys-limited-to-gnome-volume-control-unamplified-100

That's just a few. Now in Ubuntu 14.04 they have added an option to be 
allowed to go above 100% (unamplified) from the desktop and with media 
buttons. I would really like to see the same option in GNOME. I do not 
care whether it's amplified or not I simply want to be able to control 
my volume from the desktop and not have to enter sound settings for it.


> I neither know nor care about whatever technical reason exists for 
> 100%
> not being the end of that slider in sound settings. It just doesn't 
> make
> sense.

Applause! I agree 100% (pun intended).
> Michael