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[Tim <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871133

Title:
  Volume Step not changeable in Unity and GNOME desktops

Status in gnome-settings-daemon:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  New
Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Changing the volume step in gconf-editor does not do anything when adjusting the volume on a hardware dial.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
  Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.0-0ubuntu5
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Tags:  oneiric running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-08 (3 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

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