Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Queries about Rhythmbox on dbus

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:54 -0500, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Peter Gordon <peter thecodergeek com> wrote:
> > Ed Catmur wrote:
> > > Pallavi Rao wrote:
> > >> Additionally, wouldnot it be nicer if rhythmbox also
> > >> had a mute button on it, emitting along with it a
> > >> signal called "MuteOn" on dbus-monitor.
> > > What's the use case for this? I can see that a music player control applet
> > > would want to track and change the volume, but when would the user want to
> > > mute Rhythmbox as opposed to the whole computer?
> >
> > Incoming phone call (Ekiga, et al.) perhaps?
> 
> James' initial reply is quoted below. I'd agree with him, at least in
> the case of an incoming phone call; I certainly wouldn't want to miss
> my favorite song! :P
> 
> 
> On 1/3/07, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 02:25 -0800, Pallavi Rao wrote:
> > > Additionally, wouldnot it be nicer if rhythmbox also
> > > had a mute button on it, emitting along with it a
> > > signal called "MuteOn" on dbus-monitor.
> >
> > We've discussed "mute" before, and I think the general consensus is that
> > it isn't anywhere near as useful for audio-only players as it is for
> > video ones. For audio-only players, pausing is usually just as good.

Pause really is the best solution IMO, consider streaming Internet
radio. Muting is just wasting the bandwidth you could be using on the
video call.

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