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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Hacker wanted..?
From:       Gav Wood <gav () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-09-26 22:38:41
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> I would dare calling this pretty advanced. I asked a few people i know
> which of the sliders they actually used, none of them actually knew
> what they did, except for the master volume of course.

hrm. well on my sound card (sb live), the main volume control does not 
actually alter anything, since i use the digiital output (i suspect this is a 
glitch in the drivers but i dont know).

this probably isn't the most common situation, but having to go into a menu 
and select the correct item just to tweak the volume is so annoying that it 
makes kmix next to useless for me.

> I dont think it should respond to double clicking, as we generally dont
> use double clicking. I do think that we should consider renaming the

well to be fair, kde generally supports the idea that a single click on a sys 
tray icon should cause a restore of the main window doesn't it?

as it happens, i quite like the windows-style double-click functionality, with 
the single click only popping up the main volume, but perhaps that's just me. 
in any case i think there should at least be an option to make it act like 
this.

> "restore" option to make it both more visible, and make the meaning
> more obvious. I dont think the users actually looked at the tray icon
> and the full kmix window as being the same program. Something like
> "Advanced volume controls" or something could make it more obvious. I
> know i suck at making up such labels myself, so im sure someone have a
> better idea for the wording :P

relabeling stuff would not help my gripe.

> > Using several different volume controls is for many (not all, and
> > probably not most) something you do regularly, and should be easily
> > available.
>
> I didnt suggest removing the functionality of kmix, i was arguing why i
> think the current default behavior with the slider popping up when you
> click on the dock icon is a good solution.

yes, but i think what chris is pointing out is that some people (at least 2 :) 
actually use the full functionality of kmix enough to perhaps make it more 
easily available than it is currently.

gav

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Gav Wood <gav@kde.org>
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