Comment 77 for bug 410948

I just realised that Daniel T. Chen tagged this Won't fix?! Frankly, that's INSANE. Just because there's a way to fix it manually, it does not mean that ubuntu should not work to fix it by default. The current behavior is ILLOGICAL, UNEXPECTED, INTERFERING, and ANNOYING.

This is the most annoying bug in ubuntu for me right now, which means I have to go back to text-based alsamixer just to watch videos with reasonable volume levels. I have to LEAVE it open, too, because the stupid default GUI controls reset everything against my explicit settings.

This is a BIG usability problem, which many people above are also experiencing. If I demo'd Ubuntu to a new potential user, thsi would probably be the kind of flaw that would make them think Ubuntu was too buggy to use. Please take it seriously and get it sorted out. Frankly it's embarrassing that Ubuntu hasn't already released an update to fix this.