[Bug 36570] Re: Volume applet: In Dapper, Master does not control Headphones

[Luna-Tick]

Thanks for your help. The reason that I describe both issues in this bug is that I wasn't sure which of them was the bug.

When I have the headphones plugged in, I expect that the hotkeys will control the sound coming out of them. This, as I see it, could be controlled in one of two ways:
- the hotkey could switch from controlling the sound to the speakers to controlling the sound to the headphones ( Bug #21270 ?); or
- the hotkey could always control the Master, but the master could (as the name implies) control or trump all other sound devices. I believe that this is the behaviour in Windows.

I actually prefer the second option as, if you have turned the sound right down, you wouldn't expect it to be very loud when you plug in headphones. If the first option is the way that it is meant to work and  Bug #21270 adequately describes this, feel free to dupe this bug :).
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Volume applet: In Dapper, Master does not control Headphones 
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/36570