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[Johannes Gowin <537947@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still persistent in Saucy Salamander.

It's sad that this is still not implemented.

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Title:
  Location of indicators should be user configurable

Status in Indicator Applet:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  One regression I've had since karmic, and it seem to continue with
  lucid is that in the past I used the upper right corner for the volume
  applet. This allowed me to use fitts law to change the volume (a
  frequent action) without looking away and distracting me from my
  current task.

  Now that the volume applet is gone and its just the volume indicator
  in the indicator applet, there are two problems:

  1) Volume indicator placement is not regular. It depends on
  application startup order, which is not constant from boot to boot. So
  even if I move the indicator applet to be the right most applet,
  there's no certainty that the volume notifier will be on the right.

  2) Even if the volume indicator is the right-most icon in the
  indicator applet, the indicator applet has an invisible boarder,
  causing mouse-wheel scrolling to not land on the volume indicator so
  changes in the volume level do not occur.

  I feel volume changes are a more frequent action then logging in and
  out of a session, it seems silly that a corner has been dedicated to
  the "power button" applet by default. I can of course handle this
  poorly chosen default if its something I can modify, but that doesn't
  seem to be the case here.

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