Subject: bug#39063: closed (Re: [bug#39053] [PATCH] Add pulseaudio configuration and fix volume bugs)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:24:04 +0000

Your bug report

#39053: [PATCH 3/6] services: pulseaudio-configuration: Set flat-volumes to no.

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#39053] [PATCH] Add pulseaudio configuration and fix volume bugs
From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
To: Leo Prikler <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:23:26 +0100
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Leo Prikler <[email-masked]> writes:

> This series of patches adds a configuration type for pulseaudio and also fixes
> a bug, where various applications would inadvertently max out the system volume
> (see e.g. #38172).

Thanks!  I've pushed the patches with mentioned tweaks in
2c7511fb6..71e33e32f.

Subject: [PATCH 3/6] services: pulseaudio-configuration: Set flat-volumes to no.
From: Leo Prikler <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 02:48:21 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

* gnu/services/sound (pulseaudio-configuration) [daemon-conf]:
Disable flat-volumes.  Enabling flat-volumes, as is the upstream default,
causes unpleasant experiences to users when applications inadvertently max
out the system volume (e.g. as in #38172).
---
 gnu/services/sound.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/sound.scm b/gnu/services/sound.scm
index 6b2b345a44..5d72b3ada2 100644
--- a/gnu/services/sound.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/sound.scm
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ ctl.!default {
   (client-conf pulseaudio-client-conf
                (default '()))
   (daemon-conf pulseaudio-daemon-conf
-               (default '()))
+               (default '((flat-volumes . no))))
   (script-file pulseaudio-script-file
                (default (file-append pulseaudio "/etc/pulse/default.pa")))
   (system-script-file pulseaudio-system-script-file
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2.24.1