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[Jan-Christoph Borchardt <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. ;)