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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: EEK- kmix master volume control popup gone!
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2001-08-27 19:00:36
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Dne po 27. srpen 2001 09:49 Ralf Nolden napsal(a):
> On Montag, 27. August 2001 06:36, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Sunday August 26, 2001 04:43, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 August 2001 02:39, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > > Windows users, sure.  But Unix users have had middle mouse button
> > > > functionality for ages, like on the root window.
> > >
> >
> > Well I guess I don't see harm in making it on the left, I'd suggest that
> > just as a MacOS mouse is inappropriate for Windows, a Windows two-button
> > mouse is inappropriate for Unix.
>
> It doesn't matter what is appropriate or not. I agree that a three-button
> mouse works better on Unix, that is undisputable. (now comes the BUT part
> :)) Anyway, I have a friend from the shooting club who moved to Linux from
> NT4 and uses SuSE 7.2 which comes with KDE 2.1. I helped him on the phone
> to track down a problem why he doesn't hear anything with kscd, so the
> mixer is one possibility to go. He was *totally* confused with the full
> mixer widget - because KDE 2.1 had that design error to behave like the
> current CVS does. The showing of the master volume control only like in
> Windows *has* its merits and it should be done this way. And I can't tell
> him, uhhm, you should go to the next computer shop (which is still a couple
> of miles away from where he lives) and buy a three-button mouse. There's
> many users who are confident with a (Microsoft) two-button mouse and it is
> very unlikely you get them to invest into a three-button mouse just to use
> the mixer :))

 Hmm. How about using the KMix applet in Kicker, which is IMHO even better 
than docked KMix ( with only the master volume column visible, all other 
hidden ) ?

 Lubos Lunak
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