GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 342276
improper widget packing in volume-control
Last modified: 2006-05-29 14:26:00 UTC
Forwarded from: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/45446 Switching across the playback and capture tags causes an annoying "drift" of the sliders, that must be because of the sliders in the "capture" tag having two icons at the bottom. http://librarian.launchpad.net/2734860/Schermata-Regolazione%20volume%3A%20NVidia%20nForce2%20%28Alsa%20mixer%29.png http://librarian.launchpad.net/2734861/Schermata-Regolazione%20volume%3A%20NVidia%20nForce2%20%28Alsa%20mixer%29-1.png (through an image viewer (eog will do) "browse through" these two screenshots, the misalignment is evident"
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.