[pulseaudio-discuss] system sounds on KDE 4.3 too loud

[Ozan Çağlayan]

Malte Gell wrote On 16-07-2009 08:09:
> Hello,
>
> i use pulse 0.9.14 with KDE 4.3. In the Phonon setting of KDE I set pulseaudio 
> as the top device for playback.
>
> Ok, and in pavucontrol I've set system sounds to 50% loudness. But system 
> sound is still much louder than e.g. MP3 playback which has 85% loudness! How 
> can that be? Is Phonon broken and does not use pulse?
>
>
>   

It's possible that the system sounds widget in pavucontrol is not
working at all if the distribution you're using isn't using libcanberra
for playing the event sounds which should be the case with all the major
KDE4 distributions around.