I thought we had this..? I rarely if ever touch the pcm control - I only use the volume applet if I need to adjust my volume levels quickly up or down. The volume applet controls the master volume.
Say, I have rhythmbox and totem running, I can adjust the volume coming out of rhythmbox via its builtin volume control - this doesn't affect the pcm setting, only rhythmbox output. Same goes for totem - so I don't see your point, except maybe that you want to add these app-specific adjusters to the mixer? I think we already saw alot of cleanup of that dialog. The less is in there, the better, imho - and with every app doing its own volume levels, there's absolutely no need either ;) bah, bedtime On 10/9/05, Michaël Arnauts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This morning, I woke up, and had a great idea... Now, the volume control is > used in a way the hardware works, you modify a PCM channel, to modify the > output of all system sounds (movies, music, other things). I think it would > be much userfriendlyer if it would work in the way the user works. I will > give an example: > > A user is watching a movie in totem, and rhythmbox is running in the > background. Now, there isn't a difference in the volume control, it would be > nice if it could contain "Totem" and "Rhythmbox" as channels. And if you > turn the volume of the "Totem"-channel down, the volume control in totem > will turn down. That way, all the volumes can be controlled from inside the > volume control, instead of only the PCM what is a total of all sounds. The > volume of rhythmbox would be the same, as it is a different channel. > > Ofcourse, there has to be some "Hardware channels" also, for the MIC and > LINE-IN. I'm not sure about CD, because that could be done by adjusting the > volume of the "Sound Juicer" or your favourite audioplayer"-channel. > > I suck at mockups, but I guess the explenation is pretty clear... Just > split the PCM into different application-based channels, and name the other > channels "Hardware channels". > > If you comment, please add me to the CC list, since i'm not subscribed to > desktop-devel-list. If desktop-devel-list isn't the best way to put this, > please tell me where i should put this instead. > > Thanks, > > Michaël Arnauts > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
