gnome-volume-control hover value lags volume changed via mouse-wheel

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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

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