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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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