Comment from the upstream developer: It's because the text (label) has a different size, causing more space to be allocated for some than for other slider-boxes. If any, that would be a GtkBox packing bug. I can see how this is mildly annoying, but this is useful if you have multiple slides, where one is small and one is large (text-size-wise): you don't want both to have the same size, because then you're wasting valuable real estate (screen space). Therefore, they're set to no-same-size, and the result is this slight "drift". I don't consider that improper at all.
Therefore, I don't consider this a bug, I'm affraid. It's intended behaviour. ** Changed in: gnome-media (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- improper widget packing in volume-control https://launchpad.net/bugs/45446 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs