Re: [Ayatana] hearphones indicator?

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi dani

dani wrote on 11/11/10 19:11:
>...
> One of the shortcomings i can find is that heardphones not indicates. i
> create some mockups of how it could fix, hope you like them.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Maverick/heardphones%20indicator%20%28daniel%20planas%29
>...

Thanks for the idea, this is promising.

As I wrote when this was posted on OMG Ubuntu, the main problem I see
here is that there is not enough room to show the volume level
effectively.
<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/11/indicator-headphones-making-sound-schemes-symbolic/#comment-96499798>

In response, "Luke" drew some headphone icons showing the volume level.
<http://ubuntuone.com/p/P6u> These demonstrate the problem: the
headphone volume waves are very small, they're at a different angle from
the speaker waves, and they're very similar to the network strength waves.

One possibility to try is showing just one side of the headphones, not
both, so that the volume waves don't change size or shape at all. I
don't know whether that would be enough to still look like headphones.

If that can be resolved, I'd be delighted to include this as part of the
Ubuntu design.

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