On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 16:48, Matthew Paul Thomas
<mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's just a menu, it's not reinventing the audio system.
..yet it's close to reinventing the audio backend's interface to the technically unaware user.
"The menu should give easiest access to the volume of the primary sound
output device and the primary sound input device. Other devices can be
accessed through the Sound Preferences window."
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#Menu%20structure>
yeah, great ;) That helps keep things orderly.
Devices aside (OT anyway), how about treating applications like GlobalMenu does?
When e.g. Totem is focused, why not focus primarily Totem's options in the sound menu?
imagine the following scenario:
1. start a song in Rhythmbox
2. hide main Rhythmbox window with the proposed "hide" button
3. raise e.g. Abiword to compose text
4. access Sound Menu to change Rhythmboxes volume
The use case in which i would need a "main volume" slider is rather a workaround for not knowing which app is disturbing.
For this we have the single sliders in "Applications" within Sound Preferences.
Also, "Sound Preferences" is not a good name.
my thoughts, condensed:
* make Sound Menu behave like GlobalMenu
* give Sound Menu > Sound Preferences > Applications a more accessible semantic path