When I use the mouse wheel on the tray icon, each click of the wheel adjusts the master volume by 15%. This is way too much. It's currently at 35%, and one click of the wheel takes it to 50%. I only need to raise it by about 5%. To do this I have to open the mixer and then adjust the volume. I may be mistaken, but I think prior to 4.10, the wheel only adjusted it by 5-7%. I'm guessing something changed and now KMix is "respecting" the "number of lines per wheel click" setting, which is set to 3 lines per click. But that doesn't make sense for adjusting volume, so KMix should just have a setting for how many percent to adjust it on each click of the wheel. Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 315920 ***
I looked at bug 315920. It's not the same bug. This bug is only about how the *tray icon* responds to the *mouse wheel.*
I can confirm this bug. I think it has to do with the systray being rewritten to QML, so the events are now handled slightly differently. Might also have something to do with "scroll N lines" setting, that is 3 by default, so if 1 wheel scroll is/was 5%, the 15% is the result of applying correct settings in the new QML systray. But this is untested and just my hypothesis...
Martin Klapetek: You're totally right. I hacked kmix and turned out tripple trayWheelEvent(). Amarok suffered by same issue. (I hope noone will create also one bugreport) DBus-call Scroll() cause only one event (and proper volume-control). Bug 317976 have exacly same nature. So, this is not bug in kmix.
I agree this is not a bug in kmix at all. This is probably just a duplicate [or maybe the source of the two is the same] of bug 316546 . As I said there, I done some debug on the source code. For a single wheel movement KStatusNotifierItem [the new system tray icon handler using dbus and not X11] get 3 events and not only 1. I hacked the kmix code a bit and I can confirm that a single even have a change in volume equal to 5% [the correct default]. But since it get called 3 times the change is 15%. Amarok uses KStatusNotifierItem too and suffers from the same problem. I've written a very simple Qt program using QSystemTrayIcon [which still uses X11 code to handle events] and it works as expected.
bug #313579 is the one *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 313579 ***