On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Kenny Fairweather wrote: > On 15/03/10 17:16, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > After quite some time I've looked at Amarok again now that 2.3 has > > made it into unstable. Somehow, I'm missing a way to set the sound > > volume. I didn't find a volume slider in Amarok itself and KMix, > > too, doesn't show any controls for my external Edirol UA-1EX sound > > adapter. > > Click on the speaker, top right, to get the slider. Or scroll wheel > over the icon.
Consistency may be for small minds, like mine, but is this a bit non- obvious? I had noticed the Mute functionality alright. I don't get a slider when I click on the speaker widget, rather, in order to set the volume, I have to drag along the widget's border in a circle. Thankfully, the scroll wheel does work too. I'm not blaming you, of course. To the contrary, thanks for pointing out how this thing works. Still, I can't help but notice that this widget is, to my mind, exemplary of what has gone wrong in KDE 4 -- a preference for coolness over solid functionality. As a programmer myself I can easily understand how this comes about, especially in projects that are done for fun, not money. As a user, however, I don't have to like this. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
