audio-speakers-symbolic is intended to be used to indicate a *device*, but it is linked/identical to the *status* icon audio-volume-high. These should be distinct icons, especially because it's reasonable to expect multiple audio-related icons to be present in the same visual context in user software. Reproducible: Always
can you please ad a screenshot where it doesn't fit cause I check the adwaita-icon-theme and there it is ok to use the audio-speakers-symbolic and audio-volume-high icon.
@andreas, actually I can't. This came up for me as I was discussing with the developer of a mixer applet, and he is currently not using the semantically accurate icons, precisely because they are not properly distinguished in the Breeze set, which is kind of a reference/default case. I don't even use the Breeze set myself, but this hacky shortcut is rippling out and pressing other projects to work around the decision to be ambiguous. You can see a screenshot of the consequences at a bug report for that applet, using the Papirus set: https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applets/issues/36 .