<HTML><HEAD> <STYLE id=eMClientCss> blockquote.cite { margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right:0px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc } blockquote.cite2 {margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right:0px; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-top: 3px; padding-top: 0px; } .plain pre, .plain tt { font-family: monospace; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; } a img { border: 0px; }body {font-family: Tahoma;font-size: 12pt;} .plain pre, .plain tt {font-family: Tahoma;font-size: 12pt;}</STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Has Lennart read this document?</DIV><A href="http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/publications/2004-Baudisch-CHI04-FlatVolumeControl.pdf">http://www.patrickbaudisch.com/publications/2004-Baudisch-CHI04-FlatVolumeControl.pdf</A> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It is out of MS research and is essentially what lead to the improvements in the volume controls in Windows Vista and beyond.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The flat volume approach in Pulseaudio is broken and I would like it to be fixed.</DIV> <DIV>All you need to understand this is to read that research paper.</DIV> <DIV>The researchers conducted user studies so they know what works and what does not.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>