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and yeah.. the speaker icons to the left and to the right of the volume
slider should receive visual focus on hover, according to how i understand
consistency in the careful treatment of threefold horizontal control
elements in Sound Menu.. What do you think?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 13:18, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <
frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Conor,
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 17:12, Conor Curran <conor.curran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  Hey folks,
>>
>>
>>   It might be specced, but it's not implemented. I didn't find a bug for
>> that yet, so here's a new one:
>> "no visible focus on horizontal controls"
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-sound/+bug/673185
>>
>>  the keyboard controls don't work for me, yet, i guess that's still in
>> the making, is it?
>>
>>
>> Conor is the right person to ask on this!
>>
>>  Yes the keyboard handling and hover behaviour of the play/skip button has
>> yes to be implemented.
>> I did make an attempt late in the Maverick cycle to get this done but was
>> unhappy with results.
>> I do hope to get this into Natty for Alpha1 (3 weeks!)
>>
>
> looking forward to an even better experience .. yeah!
>
> Since this is about horizontal control elements, how about using the same
> concept for the "Output Volume Item", too?
> The spec says (about the volume to zero button):
>
> A borderless, mouseover-less button that sets the volume to zero (as
>> distinct from muting it). The icon for the button should
>> be audio-volume-low-zero(in the default theme, a speaker with no sound
>> waves).
>
>
> Does this mean that the entire "Output Volume Item" will receive visible
> focus on hover?
> Spec says the following about the entire row:
>
> The item should highlight when navigated to, or on mouseover, just as
>> normal menu items do, but the item should not be activatable (clicking it or
>> pressing Enter should not close the menu)
>
>
> Semantically correct would be to light up the "Output Volume to Zero" item
> briefly upon CTRL+LEFT, equivalently the same for CTRL+RIGHT, if i'm not
> completely mistaken.. And of course to highlight only the fader at first
> when the "Output Volume Item" is navigated to.
>
> My shot at this is that the Spec needs to be updated for consistency in
> this little place..
> Thoughts?
>