Keyboard sound control limited range but works with gnome-volume-control

[C.W.Holeman II]

Using the keyboard keys to increase the sound there is a limit which does not exist when using gnome-volume-control application . The max level the keyboard is able to control is up to "100%". The GUI allows the value to be increased above that limit.

[Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam)]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 22 May 2011, at 22:31, C.W.Holeman II <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Using the keyboard keys to increase the sound there is a limit which
> does not exist when using gnome-volume-control application . The max
> level the keyboard is able to control is up to "100%". The GUI allows
> the value to be increased above that limit.
>
> ** Affects: hundredpapercuts
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/786725
>
> Title:
>  Keyboard sound control limited range but works with gnome-volume-
>  control
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Using the keyboard keys to increase the sound there is a limit which
>  does not exist when using gnome-volume-control application . The max
>  level the keyboard is able to control is up to "100%". The GUI allows
>  the value to be increased above that limit.

[Mohamed Alaa (m-alaa8)]

That's a normal thing because sound volume more than 100% isn't a normal sound volume

[Mohamed Alaa (m-alaa8)]

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[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

I could confirm it on Lucid, see Screenshot.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Well, I'm not convinced it's a bug, rather a conscious design decision that the indicator shouldn't show level >100%; because that's obviously confusing. The indicator is a separate project than gnome-volume-control though.

If anything, if you think that should be fixed; I'd assign it to the gnome-volume-control package and someone should look at writing a patch to clamp the values to 100%.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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