The volume control in the "Application and System Notifications" module under "Manage Notifications" -> "Player Settings" -> "Use the KDE Sound System" option doesn't have any effect on the system notification volume. I'm using Kubuntu 10.10. Can anyone else confirm this problem?

me too. very annoying.

If you open KMix, and switch to the "Playback Streams" tab, try changing the volume there. If you can, this is likely caused by Pulseaudio. If you don't have this tab, please install "pavucontrol" and try from there.

Notice that KMix (if built with Pulseaudio support) will only show the right tabs if the pulseaudio X11 module is installed (it isn't by default in example openSUSE).

bcooksley wrote:If you open KMix, and switch to the "Playback Streams" tab, try changing the volume there. If you can, this is likely caused by Pulseaudio. If you don't have this tab, please install "pavucontrol" and try from there.

The volume control there works. Thank you for the help.

It's still a bug, can you submit a bug report to bugs.kde.org ?

TheBlackCat wrote:It's still a bug, can you submit a bug report to bugs.kde.org ?

Is this a KDE or Kubuntu/Pulseaudio bug?

KDE should handle pulseaudio seamlessly, so I would say it is probably a KDE bug. It doesn't work for me either so it isn't a kubuntu bug.

I went ahead and submitted the bug myself:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255246