Hi there. I think it would be cool to add a feature to the audio settings to always reset to a specific volume on start-up (e.g. 20%). There are some ways to do it; one that I found is "pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ 20%", which works for PipeWire (and possibly PulseAudio too, because "pactl" is for PulseAudio, but I didn't test it). Thanks in advance for your attention. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Fedora Linux 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2
This seems like a reasonable quality of life setting Possible use cases: - Starting up a laptop in an office / meeting / public area where you don't want to annoy other people - You might leave your volume very high after a session. Then on the next login, start up with headphones connected. You want to avoid hurting your ears.
Moved to the plasma pulseaudio integration which is how we do volume control in Plasma.
FYI setting the volume does not change the muted state of the device. So "pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ 0" is also required.
What would be the use case for this? Typically the last-used volume level is remembered across reboots.
See TraceyC's comment: > - You might leave your volume very high after a session. Then on the next login, start up with headphones connected. You want to avoid hurting your ears. It's good to always reset a volume to a specific value in order to avoid blasting your ears if you forgot your volume was very high in the last session.
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