Re: [Ayatana] Two suggested designs for the Sound Indicator

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Diego Moya wrote on 08/05/10 00:20:
>...
> On 7 May 2010 15:58, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>> About the title of the menu, Diego Moya wrote on 04/05/10 20:20:
>>>>> And one feature I miss is having a volume slider always shown in
>> This is perhaps one case where global improvement (everything acting
>> like a menu) has had a local drawback (a volume slider can no longer
>> appear directly in the panel).
> 
> I like somebody's proposal of being able to drag the closed panel icon
> left and right to change the slide without needing to open the menu
> first. This way I would almost recover the previous functionality,
> although it would work now only for power users like me.

That would still make it inconsistent with all the other menus.

>>> I agree with you in this - separate cumulative sliders are a
>>> nonsensical way to manage global sound. I preferred the old approach
>>> where sliders inside music players set the global volume instead of a
>>> per-app setting.
>>
>> It is awkward that we have separate system and application-specific
>> volume settings, but I don't see how getting rid of the system volume
>> setting would work.
> 
> Uh? I didn't suggest getting rid of the system volume, I suggested
> having volume sliders in individual tabs synchronized with the global
> system volume and change it (just like the sound preferences slider
> does, and the Totem slider does not).

Sorry I misunderstood you, but I still don't understand you. What tabs
are you referring to?

>...
> You could add "Ctrl+click" on the closed panel icon to mute/unmute
> sound. This is consistent with Ctrl+Left to mute when the menu is
> open, and wold be a useful accelerator.
>...

That would be slower than swiping down to the first item in the menu.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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