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[Sense Hofstede <qense@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 am sceptic on how the use cases are anyway: When you are listening
> to music, you normally do not watch a movie at the same time. If
> certain notifications are masked by loud music, there should be a
> function to automatically slightly dim every other sound when a
> notification is playing (in a subtle, not in an annoying way, of
> course).
>



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