regression: volume scrolling is too slow

[Alejandro J. Cura]

Changing the volume by scrolling in the indicator icon is way too slow. It takes over a dozen scroll gestures on a standard mouse to get from full volume to mute. I believe it should take no more that 3 scroll gestures for a pleasant user experience, like the volume applet does: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607681

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

I found Karmic's progression to be excellent.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

And though I agree it is too slow, I would like to add my personal voice that three scrolls is way too fast. I scroll using the icon for minute changes that my keyboard buttons can't do, and do drastic volume changes with the scroller from the menu.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

I always felt Karmic's wheel volume control was too slow. All releases I remember before that took only two or three pushes of the wheel for full range. Adjusting volume became a bit of a chore since Karmic. I'm with Alejandro that gnome-volume-control-applet currently has it right, but since there are different opinions could the rate of change be made configurable?

There used to be this gconf key /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/volume_step for I believe both keyboard shortcuts and wheel volume, the latter stopped working at some point after Hardy though. Could it perhaps be reactivated for indicator-sound?

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

For now I have changed the step size so as 6 spins of the wheel should traverse the range. This should be merged in today.
Good idea about making it configurable. I think though due to work load this should be set to wishlist. Should hopefully have time to make this happen in the next iteration.
thx for the helpful feedback.
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[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks Conor, I've filed the user configurability suggestion as Bug #553073. I can't mark it wishlist myself, so please feel free to do so.

Also looking at my comment #3 from launchpad, apparently half of the second part got lost. No idea what I did there, but for the record the gist was the same as in the above bug report: IMO currently gnome-volume-control-applet has it right with 5% per wheel step but please consider using a gconf key like "/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/volume_step" for the step size.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

This bug is fixed in indicator-sound 0.2.2-0ubuntu1
From the changelog:

* New upstream version
    - Animation for mute-blocking state greatly improved
    - Handles sink removal far better
    - improves scrolling action icon on panel
 -- Sebastien Bacher Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:12:47 +0200

I have tested and can confirm the fix.

[Josh Burghandy (kid1000002000)]

This is broken again in 11.10 and is a duplicate of bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/871133.

[Marco (marcodefreitas)]

The volume steps must be logarithmic, like real knobs on actual analog volume controls.