Make normal volume step smaller (Artful)

Bug #1717198 reported by Khurshid Alam
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Issue:

When you increase or decrease volume using mouse (or by keyboard), it either increases too much or decreases too low. In other words volume step is too high. It varies among hardware because sound card doesn't controls the whole chain such that the max db information is correct

Gnome provided keyboard based solution where you have to press shift+volume-key to make it work. But it has several problem:

    a) On many laptops (Asus EEBook) and AIOs (Dell AIO) there is no separate volume-key. It is aggregated with function keys which doesn't work because third level and 5th level keys are broken. The key combination which are supposed to work are

                                        Fn + [F11/F12],
                                        Fn + +[Alt] + [F11/F12],
                                        Fn + +[Alt] + [win] + [F11/F12],

It varies with hardware and very confusing. Because pressing [Fn] + [Shift] simply doesn't work.

   b) On some modern touch screen notebook there is no regular volume key. There are keys attached to the screen but those keys doesn't work with "shift".

Patch:

This is a very small patch which simply modify volume_step and can be easily maintained. This also makes mouse-wheel behavior synchronous with keyboard. Thanks.

Tags: patch artful
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Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam) wrote :
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "72_use_smaller_volume_step.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam) wrote :

@seb128

Upstream encourages downstream to patch it. So Ubuntu should patch it. No?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

where did they do recommend downstream patch?

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Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam) wrote :

@seb128

Because upstream is thinking a better way to do this. But that won't happen in one day and require some other changes from pulseaudio, according to Bastien Nocera. Meanwhile downstream can patch it. When upstream fixes it, we will drop the patch.

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