Re: Setting to allow volume above 100%

[Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Joakim Soderlund 
<joakim soderlund gmail com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I never use my internal laptop speakers as I have external ones. Due 
> to
> audio quality concerns I want neither the GNOME Shell controls nor the
> multimedia keys to go above 100%.
>
> I can understand why some people would want this though. But in case 
> it
> is ever implemented I'd like some setting to keep it at 100% or less


That is why the solution in Ubuntu works very well: A check box in the 
sound settings to either allow or not the desktop control and 
multi-media buttons to go above 100%. Leave it to the user. You can see 
how it's done in Ubuntu here:

http://i.imgur.com/aC3FWMZ.png

It works very well and was added in 14.04.
> Regards,
> Joakim Söderlud
>
>
> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 08:24 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> >  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
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