Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

[Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 12:00 +0000, usability-request gnome org wrote:
> 
> they only way to make the hole interface make changes easily for
> regular users, is to create fixed preferences defaults for typically
> installed applications
> this way you can have ppl to select:
>  "working",
>  "watching movies",
>  "waiting for message"
> represanting "defaults" volume values for applications in one click...
> also allowing to save defaults
> 
> 

Volume has too many personal and environmental influences to create an
interface simpler than letting the user directly control the volume. I
believe I've already listed off quite a few of them.

The question is not then, building the right mental model to represent
volume sets, but rather how to make it easy to control volume directly.