Volume control is a mouse dexterity game; confuses left and right

[Paul van Genderen]

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

You have to be VERY precise when dragging the volume control button, simply hovering the button is not good enough.

What happens, for example:
1. I click the volume indicator applet / icon
2. I drag it to the left
3. Button moves to the right, so I drag it again and it moves to the right again in steps until it's maxed out.

Observe that clicking the *LEFT* side of the button moves it to the *RIGHT*, which is probably the root cause of this annoying behaviour. Those who aren't used to this (I think that's everyone), will get bitten by this and accidentally cause it to inadvertently max out.

This is on Ubuntu 10.04.1 amd64 (upgraded from 9.10), compiz is enabled.

[Vish (vish)]

It is not really clear what problem has been reported here. It looks like you are referring to Bug #601562 .
Is Bug #601562 the same problem you are experiencing? [problem with clicking the slider ]

If not, what "button" are you referring to?

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

It's not exactly the same as #601562, by "button" I mean the slider or scale handle. The difference is that I don't click it to a given position, because that doesn't sound very nice. Instead I always drag it into position, like I would on an analog slider.

[Jan (jancborchardt-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm this bug but it happens only _sometimes_. It is very similar to bug #601562 and once that is fixed, step 3 (moving to the right) will no longer occur, effectively fixing this.