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Pressing a button/icon/menu choice in KMix or some other more appropriate widget, you could get a volume test - the system would start playing a very silent sound but the volume would increase gradually, until it reached the user's current set volume. The user would have a button handy which would immediately stop the test should the sound become to loud.

This would come handy to all users of analog volume wheels on their machines (either some laptops or external speakers) since looking at the current system volume level can be misleading.

The purpose would of course be to not wake somebody up, make a scene at a library or quickly check if the volume is up (e.g. waiting for a KAlarm notification, would be faster than hunting down a random media file to check volume). At the moment, the way this is done is usually by turning the volume down all the way and then slowly turning it back up to an acceptable level.

No the most important of ideas around here, but it should be easy to make (I'm tempted to try coding it myself, maybe as plasmoid at first) and I do believe it adds value to many users.