On Monday 03,May,2010 06:54 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > On 3 May 2010 12:11, Sense Hofstede <qense@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 3 May 2010 12:04, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 3 May 2010 11:15, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Sense Hofstede <qense@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> On 3 May 2010 11:04, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> How about a dinamic ordering in the indicator? >>>>>> >>>>>> So if I don't have any music player currently running (or playing), the >>>>>> an >>>>>> "active" application should appear first (for example, Firefox, or >>>>>> better >>>>>> even - VOIP application, such as empathy or Skype). >>>>> >>>>> Very good idea! It would indeed be a huge usability benefit if the >>>>> applications are sorted on their activity so you can easily set the >>>>> volume of the application you're most likely interacting with. >>>>> >>>> >>>> You could even "hide" everything else in some kind of a submenu... so you'd >>>> only see the media player (if running), the application you're running >>>> currently and the master volume. If current application doesn't support >>>> audio, then show the first few that do. Everything else could be in "Other >>>>> " entry. >>> >>> Absolutely. By default there should be only one volume slider for all >>> programs (like now). A control for every program (e. g. gedit …) will >>> just confuse users. >> >> FYI, 'gedit' there was a joke. Of course there should _NOT_ be an >> entry for for every programme. > > I know. I could have said Firefox as well. ;) Firefox is more likely to appear on the list, and would be especially useful, since Firefox doesn't have volume controls of its own. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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