Comment 39 for bug 871133

HEXcube, thanks for taking the time to attaching the patch, however for a fix to be backported into the stable releases it must land in the current development release (Xenial) first. However that said, I mostly agree with upstream here and would not want to see it incorporated into ubuntu except as a last resort, it really is just a hidden magic button that glosses over potentially real bugs.

First I see reports (mostly in the upstream report) that people are getting 10-30% steps in volume instead of the defined 6%. That is clearly a bug, and should be fixed first since it is really unclear how much that is contributing to the reported issues.

Second using a linear scale for a volume slider is really not ideal, pulse audio uses a cubic scale to define volume, but from a quick glance at the source code it may be that g-s-d is plugging linear values into these structures. IF that is indeed true, then it is also going to mess up the actual steps, of the actual audio volume.