Allan Day ([email protected]) said: > > The other day she called me as she couldn't > > figure out how to increase the volume. It turns out that audio was > > muted, and what gnome-shell shows in that case is a dark gray audio icon > > with a tiny little "X" on its corner. > > > > The dark gray icon (around 25% gray) has very little contrast with > > respect to its surrounding black bar (0% gray). The apparent contrast > > is even less since often what you have directy below the icon is the > > very-lightly-colored titlebar of a window (... with a white content > > area), so the dark gray audio icon is hard to see. > > Seems like an obvious bug with the volume icon - did you file a report?
To echo Federico, I think it's a problem with any of the icons that use the two-tone scheme, or a problem with the tone itself rather than the icon. The 'inactive/background' dark gray used in the status indicators essentially fades into the black background when used on any angle-sensitive screen (like many laptops) - move the screen just a few degrees off the proper viewing angle and even though the rest of the display is perfectly usable, that part of the status indicators is essentially invisible. > > (... Could we add a microphone volume slider to the volume menu? It > > would be nice to have for those awkward Skype moments. And about the > > only other time I use the Sound Preferences capplet is when I need to > > boost the volume past 100% - that could very well be in the slider in > > gnome-shell, I guess.) > > We already have a microphone slider when a microphone is in use. Given we have output volume even when it's not in use, I could see having the mic volume there as well in terms of a 'show-before-you-start' paradigm. Bill _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
