There seems to be two different sound volumes. I'll demonstrate. First, go into the sound settings panel in the control center. [...] I hear: output volume: slider 31454 31 percent. If I check the same thing on the top bar under settings, I hear: volume slider 0.5 47 percent.

hi Ah, this makes a lotmore sense. If I had to suggest a change, I'd recommend changing the volume slider in settings to read out percentages instead of numbers. That is, instead of saying 31454 31 percent, simply say 31 percent. I'm not sure what those numbers are for, but I'm assuming raw data that's received from the sound card, that is, the sound card doesn't think in percentages but in digits. For some reason there's a magic number which is often translated into 100 percent, which is 65536. I think it has something to do with bit counts or something in the processor registers, but that kind of stuff is way over my head. Long way of saying, I think the volume sliders should give percentages, rather than decimal points. I wonder why the settings in gnome shell allow you to adjust beyond 100 percent? When I tried that with my headset, I had to hold it a foot away from my ears and the sound was extremely distorted. Surprised the speakers didn't blow. Which makes me even more curious. What is windows doing? Does it use the same measure? Mellisa's windows box says 50 percent, but according to gnome the volume is actually closer to 80 percent at the same loudness level, but of course I'm no expert. One interesting bit between the two is that in linux, when I plugged the headset in and switched sound to it, the sound was inaudible until I adjusted the volume. When I did the same thing on a windows box the volume jumped in the task bar thing from where Mellisa had it, which is usually around 30 percent, to 55 percent, but the volume stayed the same. It was audible as soon as it was plugged in and windows did it's thing. I wonder why linux didn't do that as well? I'm not a regular user of windows and have very little idea how it actually works. I take it it's not a bug then. Should pulse audio jump the volume with some hardware? This seems to be something particular to this logitech headset, as the one I had before this did jump when plugged in. Very odd. I'm not saying that the users choice should be taken away, more curious than anything. Thanks Kendell clark On 09/27/2015 09:22 AM, Florian Müllner wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:52 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> There seems to be two different sound volumes. I'll demonstrate. >> First, go into the sound settings panel in the control center. [...] >> I hear: output volume: slider 31454 31 percent. If I check the same >> thing on the top bar under settings, I hear: volume slider 0.5 47 percent. > > Both sliders control the same volume, however the one in gnome-shell > has a range from 0 to 100%, while the one in Settings allows to > amplify the volume to higher values (about 150%). As it happends, 31% > on a 0-150 range indeed matches 47% on a 0-100 range. > > To indicate that difference, the slider in Settings has a visible > marker at 100%, but that obviously does not translate to screen > readers - IMHO the best option would be to modify the slider in > Settings to read out percentage values in the 0-150% range, however > I'm not sure whether that's actually possible with ATK. Another option > would be to modify the slider in gnome-shell to use the actual volume > values instead of mapping them to values between 0.0 and 1.0 - the > percentages would still differ due to the different upper limits, but > at least the values would match up in that case. > -- devel mailing list devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct