[Ayatana] Sound Menu

[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the mockups for the new SoundMenu design, which looks great, my one concern is for consistency. Right now, with all the new applets, we have a myriad of inconsistent behavior, and this will only worsen as we make things more complicated. For instance, in the mockups and in current use, we have toggles that, in some cases, add a left hand margin check mark, such as with the play button in rhythmbox applet, and in others, it changes the text, like in the current sound applet. I say get rid of the check mark, and make it change between play/pause, but looking at the mockups, this will only get worse. Can we please discuss specific ruling functions in these applets so we don't have a full on widget on the panel? Currently, we only have Vertical layered controls. Each vertical row contains one function, and ought to be indicated in consistent ways (i.e., the triangles for running programs, the dots for status, the check for play/pause, sometimes the icon changes...) and I think its going to mess up that consistency with adding horizontal functions as well. part of the reason these applets are great is the ability to use pretty fast keyboard shortcuts to control things, and being the literally every single one so far has only vertical, lets not add the horizontal (i'm referring specifically to the next and previous buttons on either side of the play button).

After the rows, we really need to get the indications cleaned up. Lets make some firm decisions about what means 'This program is open!' what means 'this feature is on/off' and what doesn't, in all the menus. The mockups show no check marks, thats good. Get rid of all of them, unless actual indicating is needed (like the status selector).