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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thibault, thanks for the interesting suggestion. You're right that
having the active player at the top would mean consistent movement, and
less movement required, to access the playback controls.

However, it would also mean a player could jump around often in the
menu. Consider that you have ambient music playing in a music player.
Without stopping it, you play a brief video (a sports clip, say, or a
news item, or something else that isn't musical) in a browser that
integrates with the sound menu. In the sound menu, the browser would
jump above the music player, because it's the newest player; then when
video ends, it would jump below again, because it's no longer playing.

I'm not sure whether that would outweigh the benefit, and it's hard to
tell because 13.10 is the first (and hopefully only) Ubuntu version to
show playback controls for multiple players at once. I'll look at this
again after 14.04, but in the meantime, contributors are welcome to
produce a PPA for testing the behavior you suggest.

** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176416

Title:
  UX – active sound source should be at top

Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Whats the problem:
  If a user has multiple audio players, sound sources - which show up in the sound indicator, the click target variates to control (e.g. stop) the current playing application.

  How it should be:
  The current active playing sound source should be at top. If multiple sound sources are active at the same time, show the newest at top. Most times there will be only one active sound source and therefor a fix mouse target to control the source. A side effect is, that this would also reduce the mouse distance from the initial click at the sound indicator to the desired target.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: indicator-sound 12.10.2daily13.04.12-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat May  4 21:54:58 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-02 (63 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130301)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: indicator-sound
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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