<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hey guys, I remember bringing this up with MPT way back. He wasn't so keen on changing his design to accommodate / flag an overdriven state. But he came up with this suggestion. <address>What would be most satisfying overall, then, is if we could offer easy access to >100% volumes only to people for whom it will do more good than harm. The wiki page refers to "devices that have PA_SINK_</address> <address>DECIBEL_VOLUME/PA_SOURCE_DECIBEL_VOLUME set". If these devices are a small minority of those that Ubuntu runs on, then that's a promising way forward: we can show the extended slider (with red >100% section) for those devices, and the normal slider otherwise.</address> Is this a valild approach ? With regards the different ways of exposing +11db amplification I would go the way of number 4. Where / which UI should this belong to though (GVC or actually on the menu itself) ? <blockquote cite="mid:4DFF2AC2.5020204@canonical.com" type="cite">4. In the UI, add a checkbox saying "Give me 11 dB more!" (or "Ultra PulseAudio(R) Boost(TM)" ;-) ) and if enabled, both the UI and the media keys go up to +11 dB. That would at least keep the two consistent. </blockquote> Conor </body> </html>