On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 17:21, Jan Hopmans <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13/10/2010 19:08, Dylan McCall wrote: > >> In other cases, however, an active choice was clearly made but that >>>> choice doesn't address the element's purpose. Why should a volume >>>> control menu be labelled "Mute"? Etc. >>>> ... >>>> >>> Because that's exactly what the item does. (If the speakers are already >>> muted, it says "Unmute".) >>> >> The issue suddenly occurred to me. It's one we all know and love :) >> > Concerning the sound menu; I this sounds as blasphemy; > > It might be a good idea to look at windows. They have pretty good sound > menu. It's useless; clean and possible to find a lot of hidden options if > you really want to. > > While I like the Play, Pause buttons. I absolutely hate the 'Mute' text. > One sound Icon does suffice, this button could be a mute button. It solves > multiple problems at once. > > I've also seen some mentioning over a icon that doesn't look nice. Use > another icon; simply don't re-use something if it doesn't fit the problem. > > I hope this helps improving the sound menu. This thread has been dead for a > while, but I am just catching up. I think it's easy to improve the sound > menu even more. > This brings the question to my mind: The menu structures we are currently using in Ayatana Indicators.. do they support multiple items in one row, or can we only stack menu items vertically?
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