This one isn't related to the interaction with the hardware-mixer on ThinkPads. It's related to there being far too many notches to ramp the volume up and not enough to ramp it down.
For reference, Apple have 16 steps on Mac OSX. IBM have 14 steeps on the ThinkPads. Twelve is not enough and thirty-two is too many. In an ideal world I'd just set these back to (a) be the same, (b) both be sixteen. The Mute button is there for anyone who wants a quick solution to turn the music down and this is the only argument I've heard in favour of the unbalanced volume weighting. No other piece of software I've come across has this functionality, so while it is novel and probably unique; I'm not sure that it should be deployed out-of-the-box. ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 39098 thinkpad: volume button weighting ** Summary changed: - Volume hotkeys increase volume faster than they reduce it + g-s-d Uneven volume hotkey weighting ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal => Wishlist Status: Rejected => Confirmed -- g-s-d Uneven volume hotkey weighting https://launchpad.net/bugs/45743 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs