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

[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew,

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.


>> 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).


> I look forward to your feedback on the rest of the specification.

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.

Also, I like having the mousewheel scroll change volume by a big
percentage. Previously it was too slow.