This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center -
1:3.24.3-0ubuntu3
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gnome-control-center (1:3.24.3-0ubuntu3) artful; urgency=medium
* Add patch to expose settings allowing setting volume above 100%:
- debian/patches/70_allow_sound_above_100.patch, adapt the patch from
unity-control-center to only add a slightely reshaped UI (use of
gtk switch and rephrasing). Only show the above 100% volume option if:
1. you are in an ubuntu session
2. the selected output supports amplified volume. If so:
present the settings to google that on and off. It will enable
GNOME Shell and media keys to set the sound above 100%. If not
enabled, volume and sliders are all capped to 100%. (LP: #1706524)
-- Didier Roche <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:30:52 +0200
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1706524
Title:
Enable switch option to set volume above 100% from media keys and
gnome shell UI
Status in GNOME Settings Daemon:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
New
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-center have a slider enabling setting the
volume above 100%, however, this settings is only available in that
panel, and if you use the media key or the GNOME Shell controls,
volume is reset at 100% at max.
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-center
- 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-daemon volume plugin for respecting this settings in
the global OSD and react to media keys
- add a dependency from the ubuntu-session package on the schema, as reading
the schema is conditioned on the session name.
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