Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Gabriel Rossetti
<rossetti gabriel gmail com> wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2014 11:58 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%.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Michael
>
> Before Gnome Shell, with the old Gnome, the sound went to 100% visually but
> in reality it went higher. When I installed Gnome Shell the sound at 100%
> was much lower than it was before and the only way to make it higher was to
> go to the sound settings and put it above 100%.
>
> I think this was done for sound quality, but unless I jack it up all the way
> up to max the sound is fine.

We tried that ... we let it go up to 150%
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641886 .. it caused some
problems though see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649411
and then we reverted the change again
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657607