From kde-multimedia Mon Apr 22 19:38:37 2013 From: Trever Fischer Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:38:37 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: [GSoC] Project: KMix2 Sound Menu Message-Id: <1366659517.7341.7.camel () thebe ! milkyway ! wm161 ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=136665952832160 On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 19:52 +0200, Josef Filzmaier wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I am Filzmaier Josef, a student seeking for a Google Summer of Code mentoring > organisation. I found myself quite happy with the KDE philosophy of doing > things and therefore using KDE for several years now on all my computers. I > found your proposal of intagrating an ubuntu-like new sound menu into the > plasma workspaces system tray very appealing because i don't think the current > one reflects the philosophy and functionality of the KDE standards very well. > > While on the one hand i think the SoundMenu approach of ubuntu is quite good i > for myself am missing certain functionality > > First, I am a user of veromix and am liking the ability to separately control > the volume of certain applications. I think there should be an option to show > volume controls for media players and applications. > > The second thing i am not so sure about is the fact that you can not easily > change the output device of a certain application, like you can do with > pavucontrol or veromix. I think there should be a right-click option to change > the output device, like it is now with the kmix interface. Both of these are implemented in the kmix-improvements branch, though I can't testify to their reliability or usability. > > I just wanted to share my interests and thoughts for this project, before > applying to it on Monday. It is most excellent that you're so interested in volume sliders :P Can't wait to see your application :) > > Thank you for your attention and happy hacking! > _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia