gnome sound manager applet is less sensitive

thank you for your bug report, I'm not convinced that would be right though, that should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org to be discussed with the people writting the software by somebody who has a strong opinion about the behaviour

did you open a GNOME bug?

he did it here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607681

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-media - 2.29.91-0ubuntu1

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gnome-media (2.29.91-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - gnome-volume-control
    + bug 599663 - make changing the volume unmute (lp: #460390)
    + bug 606325 - show unamplified volume on outputs as well
    + bug 606914 - applet should not set volume on startup (lp: #498550)
    + bug 598921 - handle the last input source being removed
    + bug 605694 - fix GvcChannelMap leak (lp: #485923)
    + bug 607681 - set default scroll-wheel delta to 5% (lp: #358131)
    + other misc fixes
    - gstreamer-profiles:
    + bug 524364 - libglade -> gtkbuilder (lp: #508227)
    - general
    + bug 609933 - fix linking with pedantic linkers
    + bug 101811 - remove unnecessary markup from glade message
    - added/updated translations
  * debian/control.in:
    - build-depends on libgladeui-1-dev and not on libglade2-dev
  * debian/gnome-media-common.install,
    debian/libgnome-media0.install:
    - new version update
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:48:04 +0100

I think this is a poor decision. In the previous version, one scroll increased the volume by 1 %. Now, it's 5 %, which is way too much and doesn't allow fine-tuning of the volume. On most computers I work with, a 5 % increase in volume is significant. Also, scrolling a few times will now sometimes turn the volume from very quiet to VERY loud.
Please restore the scroll-wheel delta to 1%!

@Wolf-Jakob: does your volume really change only 5% per mouse wheel step? 5% should not change very quiet into very loud.

Please check further if your volume changes are very big in the load range but very small in the quiet range (or vice-versa). Perhaps certain sound card drivers have a linear volume range whereas others have a logarithmic one. This should be standardized and wrong drivers must be fixed then.

@Wolf-Jakob: Sorry now I saw your same comment on gnome.org. So let us continue there...