Bug#824059: plasma-desktop: When used with pulseaudio, can make people deaf
Package: plasma-desktop
Version: 4:5.5.4-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
I am reporting this with an high severity, because this can cause hear loss.
On a default install of debian with kde (recommends enabled), when playing music,
when a KDE notification appears, the overall volume goes up to 100%, which can
cause hearing loss.
I have tried to replicate, pressing "test" in systemsettings, for the audio
output of the notifications, and the volume always goes to 100%, regardless of
the initial value.
Sometimes the volume of amarok remains unchanged, and sometimes it goes to 100%
as well.
Since this is probably a very complicated issue that might be caused by pulseaudio,
phonon, vlc as phonon backend or kdelibs, and it will probably take many years to be
fixed, I suggest to ship plasma with a sane default and disable all audio
notifications by default.
This is probably the best solution in the short term. And I don't think this can
wait, since blasting sound at 100% volume when my setting was 12% can be
dangerous.
I hope you will not ignore this.
Best
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.5.3a (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages plasma-desktop depends on:
ii breeze 4:5.4.3-1
ii kactivities 5.16.0-1
ii kde-cli-tools 4:5.4.3-1
ii kded5 5.16.0-1
ii kio 5.16.0-1.1
ii libc6 2.22-7
ii libcanberra0 0.30-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.4
ii libgcc1 1:6.1.1-1
ii libkf5activities5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5activitiesexperimentalstats1 4:5.4.3-1
ii libkf5archive5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5auth5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5baloo5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5bookmarks5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5codecs5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5completion5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5configcore5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5configgui5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5emoticons-bin 5.16.0-2
ii libkf5emoticons5 5.16.0-2
ii libkf5globalaccel5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5i18n5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5itemmodels5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5itemviews5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5kdelibs4support5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.16.0-1.1
ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.16.0-1.1
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.16.0-1.1
ii libkf5newstuff5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5notifications5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5notifyconfig5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5parts5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5people5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5peoplewidgets5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5plasma5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5plasmaquick5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5quickaddons5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5runner5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5service-bin 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5service5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5solid5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5sonnetui5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5wallet5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.16.0-1
ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.16.0-1
ii libkfontinst5 4:5.4.3-1
ii libkfontinstui5 4:5.4.3-1
ii libkworkspace5-5 4:5.4.3-2
ii libphonon4qt5-4 4:4.8.3-2
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 8.0-2+b2
ii libpulse0 8.0-2+b2
ii libqt5concurrent5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5core5a 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5dbus5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5network5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5qml5 5.5.1-3
ii libqt5quick5 5.5.1-3
ii libqt5svg5 5.5.1-2
ii libqt5widgets5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libqt5x11extras5 5.5.1-3
ii libqt5xml5 5.5.1+dfsg-16+b1
ii libstdc++6 6.1.1-1
ii libtaskmanager5 4:5.4.3-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.3-1
ii libxcb-record0 1.11.1-1
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.11.1-1
ii libxcb1 1.11.1-1
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxi6 2:1.7.6-1
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.9-2
ii oxygen-sounds 4:5.4.3-1
ii phonon4qt5 4:4.8.3-2
ii plasma-desktop-data 4:5.5.4-1
ii plasma-framework 5.16.0-1
ii plasma-workspace 4:5.5.4-1
ii polkit-kde-agent-1 4:5.4.3-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-solid 5.16.0-1
ii qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel 5.5.1-3
ii qml-module-qt-labs-settings 5.5.1-3
Versions of packages plasma-desktop recommends:
pn bluedevil <none>
ii fonts-oxygen 4:5.4.3-1
pn kde-config-gtk-style <none>
ii kde-config-sddm 4:5.4.3-1
ii kde-style-oxygen-qt5 4:5.4.3-1
ii kgamma5 5.4.3-1
pn khelpcenter <none>
ii khotkeys 4:5.4.3-1
ii kinfocenter 4:5.4.3-1
ii kio-extras 4:15.08.3-2
pn kmenuedit <none>
ii kscreen 4:5.4.3-1
pn ksshaskpass <none>
ii ksysguard 4:5.4.3-1
ii kwin-x11 [kwin] 4:5.4.3-1.1
ii kwrited 4:5.6.3-1
pn muon-discover <none>
pn muon-notifier <none>
pn muon-updater <none>
pn pam-kwallet5 <none>
pn plasma-pa <none>
ii powerdevil 4:5.4.3-1
pn sni-qt <none>
ii systemsettings 4:5.5.4-1
pn user-manager <none>
plasma-desktop suggests no packages.
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