See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473841#c18 This means that applications would be changing their stream's volume, rather than having: app volume -> stream volume -> hardware volume
This bug has been triaged
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
It does have a volume property in gst-plugins-good now.