Bug 392666

Summary:	KDE Volume control resets volume on each pause
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma-pa	Reporter:	Axel Braun <axel.braun>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.12.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Axel Braun 2018-04-03 07:11:35 UTC

The issue was introduced in one of the latest plasma-updates( I noticed first in Tumbleweed 20180324). It is quite annoying if you have a device where the maximum volume is quite low (in this case: My T520 Laptop):

In the system settings one can set the maximum volume for output to 150%.
If you start a stream you can increase the volume in the KDE volume control (menu bar) to lets say 150%. Pause the stream: stays on 150%. Play the stream again: Volume reduced to 100%.
Expected behaviour: Volume stays on 150% (or the value it was set to

Comment 1 Axel Braun 2018-04-04 09:12:31 UTC

It seems that this can be worked around by setting 
; flat-volumes = no
in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and then restarting pulseaudio (resp. logging off and on again)

Comment 2 David Rosca 2018-04-04 11:45:18 UTC

It has nothing to do, you should not use flat-volumes if you don't like it (it is disabled by default in almost all distributions).

Comment 3 David Rosca 2018-04-04 11:45:36 UTC

Sorry, it has nothing to do with plasma-pa.

Comment 4 Axel Braun 2018-04-04 11:48:29 UTC

(In reply to David Rosca from comment #2)
> It has nothing to do, you should not use flat-volumes if you don't like it
> (it is disabled by default in almost all distributions).

Sorry, but I never touched this before.