Ubuntu
indicator-sound package

Make step size of mouse wheel volume control configurable

Bug #553073 reported by marmuta on 2010-04-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #871133: Volume Step not changeable in Unity and GNOME desktops. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	The Sound Menu	Triaged	Wishlist	Conor Curran
	indicator-sound (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

Since there are differing opinions on how fast or slow the mouse wheel should adjust the volume, see Bug #551725, I suggest to make the step size user configurable.

There already exists a gconf key for the keybord step size in "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/volume_step" which I believe at some point in the past controlled the wheel step size as well. Supporting this, or something similar like "/apps/indicator-sound/wheel_step" would allow users to adjust the responsiveness to their liking.

That would be high responsiveness for me, i.e. 2-3 spins for the full range like it was before Karmic. At that time most interactions took just a single wheel push, afterwards it took multiple spins that required a conscious effort to stay hovering over the icon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-sound 0.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 1 08:02:33 2010
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, User Name)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-sound

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marmuta (marmuta) wrote on 2010-04-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2010-04-06

Changed in indicator-sound:
assignee:	nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2010-04-12

Changed in indicator-sound:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-04-12

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Conor Curran (cjcurran) on 2010-04-12

Changed in indicator-sound (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

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Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote on 2010-05-13:

I just compared the different ways to change master volume and found that it is a bit messy: using the scroll wheel I need...
* 7 spins on the volume icon
* 4 spins on the slider of its menu
* 2 spins on the topmost slider of the audio settings window
...to change volume from 0% to 100%.

Like marmuta I'd prefer about 3 spins. Adjusting wheel step size with gconf would be nice-to-have. But it's the default step size that counts for most users!

BTW: while the mouse is over the slider in the menu of the volume icon, pressing +/- on the keyboard changes the volume much faster than if the focus is on the slider of the audio settings window. And the +/- keys of the numeric keypad have no effect at all.

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Mike Hicks (hick0088) wrote on 2011-10-29:

It looks like the /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/volume_step setting is now (in Oneiric Ocelot 11.10) ignored by whatever the new volume control thing is in the GNOME 3 Shell, so both the keyboard multimedia keys and the mouse wheel have larger step sizes than what I'd like to see.

It would actually be nice to have volume control behave on something like a gamma curve for a monitor's brightness -- I have one system at work where the volume goes from inaudible to quite loud in just a few steps, but increasing volume from 20 or 30% up to 100% barely has any effect.

But I'm very close to ditching both GNOME 3 or Unity and going for XFCE or something. This is one of dozens of annoyances that have piled up. I'm pretty disappointed that things have gotten to this state, as I've used GNOME since something like version 0.13. Applets and other bits of the desktop environment seem to get rewritten every few years for no good reason, and there's always a degradation in functionality.

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Josh Burghandy (kid1000002000) wrote on 2012-01-15:

This has becocme a duplicate bug of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/871133.