Comment 30 for bug 883485

I just realized that we're beating a dead horse. The developer set the status to "won't fix" (#4). I see his point. Volume.d does what it's designed to do.
Still, this is an unacceptable situation IMHO. Volume.d, the mixer applet, and pulse audio all are dependencies of xubuntu-desktop, so they should cooperate. Yet they don't. This is the type of issue that turns people away from Xfce (in fact, my SO is pushing pretty hard for us to go back to Gnome, because of this bug).
So, maybe we should file this bug under another project? But which? Anyone have an idea?