On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 19:57 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > Hi, > > Current behavior > ---------------- > > There are 5 icons in GNOME to show the volume of an audio card > > "stock_volume-mute": A speaker with a red X > "stock_volume-0": A speaker with no sound waves > "stock_volume-min": A speaker with one sound waves > "stock_volume-med": A speaker with two sound waves > "stock_volume-max": A speaker with three sound waves > > The behavior of the mixer applet is the following: > > volume(x) Icon > ---------------------- > mute mute > 0 mute > 0 < x < 1/3 low > 1/3 <= x < 2/3 med > 2/3 <= x < 1 max
Since mute is an orthogonal operation to the volume setting, perhaps the muted icon should continue to show the actual volume setting. So if you mute at 80%, you'd see the icon maybe grayed out a bit with a red X over it, but still with the three lines. You can actually still change the volume while muted. It might serve as a nice indication that unmuting may blast your ear drums out of your skull. Just a thought. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
