does gnome have two sound volume settings?

[Eric Griffith]

On mine laptop the "Settings" are 0%-100%-(unspecified)%, I'm not sure why
you're getting a really long number. Using a non-english locale maybe? Bug
in drivers / pulse?
On Sep 27, 2015 10:53, "kendell clark" <coffeekingms at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com>
> 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.
> >
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