Bug 444754

Summary:	Change color of volume percentage at high volume levels while using earphones
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Mohammed Sameer <glifwentry>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.23.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Mohammed Sameer 2021-11-01 06:03:08 UTC

SUMMARY
Change color of volume percentage above high volume levels like 70% or 75% to caution it is not good for ears, when using headphones or earphones.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT
Color of volume percentage changes above high volume levels to caution that it is not good to ears.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.23
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-38-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-5010U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 5500

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I think it is also applicable to bluetooth earphones.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-11-01 18:52:16 UTC

We already do this when going above 100% volume. However we can't really do it in other cases because this would require knowing the comfortable volume levels for each output device, which isn't knowable. For example we can't distinguish between headphones and speakers plugged into a 1/8 minijack; they both show up as the same generic device. Therefore we would have to make the change for all devices including speakers, and this would cause users of somewhat quiet speakers to complain and file bug reports about it. :) So I'm afraid we can't do this, sorry.