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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:52:01 +1030
From:      Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome-volume-control hover value lags volume changed via mouse-wheel
Message-ID:  <1201195321.1598.4.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse>
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On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:21 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 02:47 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:10 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 02:21 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> > > > Since upgrading to gnome-2.20 from 2.18 I've noticed that the volume
> > > > level that appears in the hover pop-up over the volume control no longer
> > > > stays in sync with the volume level when changing it using the
> > > > mouse-wheel.
> > > > 
> > > > That is, hovering the mouse over the volume control, the pop-up appears
> > > > showing, e.g. Volume 10%, then scrolling the mouse wheel once up, the
> > > > volume changes (unseen) to 14% but the pop-up continues to display 10%,
> > > > then with each successive move of the mouse wheel, either up or down,
> > > > the volume setting changes appropriately but the pop-up displays the
> > > > value prior to the last change. So continuing from the previous
> > > > description, another up event increases the volume to 18% but the pop-up
> > > > displays 14%, then a down event will drop the volume back to 14% but the
> > > > pop-up will display 18%, etc.
> > > > 
> > > > It's mainly an annoyance but I happen to keep the volume setting very
> > > > low on this computer and I was frequently muting the sound inadvertently
> > > > until I realised what was happening. It definitely remained in sync
> > > > prior to the upgrade.
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Move the mouse a little (not off the icon).  The tooltip only changes
> > > when mouse movement is detected.  This is most likely a bug in the new
> > > GTK+ tooltip code which is new to GNOME 2.20.
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > Ok, that works here. Thanks.
> > 
> > Let me know if you'd like me to follow-up on this for a bug-report, etc.
> 
> If you can't find an existing bug in GNOME's Bugzilla, go ahead and file
> a new one.  Like I said, I think this will fall under the gtk+
> component.
> 
> Joe
> 

It was there.

Bug 510572 - Make tooltip update immediately when volume is changed by
mousescroll (gnome-applets)

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510572

And a patch:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=103189


Wayne




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