Enable switch option to set volume above 100% from media keys and gnome shell UI
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| GNOME Settings Daemon |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| gnome-session (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Some devices have very office-oriented hardware and so, low volume power speakers.
The normal usage can make the sound unhearable on those configurations.
We added in u-c-c an option to switch it above 100%, per max volume capability, and unity was picking up this value in its indicator and u-s-d.
We desire thus to bring the same experience in the new ubuntu GNOME Shell session: gnome-control-
Upstream GNOME doesn't seem to have genuine interests in enabling that feature (see the discussion on the linked bug report). The proposal is thus:
- only enabling that feature in the *ubuntu* sessions. Don't let the sound (even if the key was enabled in the ubuntu session) goes above 100% in the gnome sessions to preserve upstream desired experience.
- reuse the same gsettings key (as long as it's not upstream) as we used to have. Easy migrations, user's setting preservation and such
- add this switch to gnome-control-
- modify GNOME Shell agregate menu (volume settings) to represent the % in the volume slider corresponding to actual setting. We approach this as a distro patch and not an extension. The extension approach was hacky (overriding a callback, copying logic), and may work badly with well-designed other extensions. Hence this untrusive distro-patch.
- patch gnome-settings-
- add a dependency from the ubuntu-session package on the schema, as reading the schema is conditioned on the session name.
Related branches
- Sebastien Bacher: Pending requested
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Diff: 42 lines (+11/-2)3 files modifieddebian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/control (+2/-1)
debian/control.in (+2/-1)
- Sebastien Bacher: Pending requested
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Diff: 190 lines (+161/-0) (has conflicts)3 files modifieddebian/changelog (+17/-0)
debian/patches/70_allow_sound_above_100.patch (+143/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
- Sebastien Bacher: Approve
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Diff: 172 lines (+120/-9)5 files modifieddebian/changelog (+8/-0)
debian/control (+1/-1)
debian/patches/70_allow_sound_above_100.patch (+109/-0)
debian/patches/series (+1/-0)
debian/rules (+1/-8)
- Sebastien Bacher: Pending requested
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Diff: 158 lines (+130/-0)4 files modifieddebian/changelog (+11/-0)
debian/patches/50_add_ubuntu_desktop_detect.patch (+38/-0)
debian/patches/70_allow_sound_above_100.patch (+79/-0)
debian/patches/series (+2/-0)
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #1 |
| Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote | #2 |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #3 |
| Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote | #4 |
| Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon) wrote | #5 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #8 |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
I'm not sure what >100% means but if it means there might be distortion or clipping then those would be reasons to not allow >100% by default.
If the volume isn't loud enough by default then maybe the user should find some form of external amplification (that won't have distortion or clipping problems that might arise from >100% setting).
Just a guess/concern...