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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:36, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The panel is meant to be detached from the rest of the desktop. That
> means it looks the same on all workspaces no matter what window is
> currently focused.


Workspaces were not part of my point, not relevant to my proposal either.


> > * make Sound Menu behave like GlobalMenu
>

My main idea is to adapt status indicators to what the user wants focused.


> don't call anything a Preference if its value is changed through
> normal use of an application.
>

+1


> To me, this is begging to be split into two windows. One being
> preferences, the other being Volume Control.


Aha.
We're getting somewhere now..


> As a simpler approach,
> gnome-volume-control can be told to show the more relevant section in
> this context. Running gnome-volume-control --page=applications from
> indicator-sound does the trick ;)
>

nice thinking ;)

Let me refine our recent points again:
* seperate static preferences from runtime controls
* tie status indication to user focus

!?