I must say I believe the discussion on this bug has made it drift away from the issue the bug was originally posted on. The original post seems to reflect on the fact that there are different step sizes in the software mixer when using volume up/down. I support that behaviour and don't think that should be changed. What I do want to say is a bug is the matter Paul Sladen and Whoppie mentioned. I will try to clarify what I mean below.
Since the thinkpad volume buttons (the physical ones on the laptop) which control the hardware mixer has one step size and the software mixer (which is triggered to change when using the thinkpad volume buttons) has another step size we end up with unpredictable volume control. This behaviuor is not acceptable and should be changed. I belive that the best solution in this case would be to separate the hardware and software mixers by disabling the volume buttons on thinkpads in hotkey-setup as Whoppie suggested. -- thinkpad: volume button weighting https://launchpad.net/bugs/39098 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
