Re: [Usability] Volume Control Consistency between Rhythmbox and Totem

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Sun, 23 May 2004, gabor wrote:

> global-volume: that's adjusted in the gnome-volume-applet...this is
> usually mapped directly to the sound-card (via oss or alsa).it adjusts
> the volume-level for all the applications

I know that, but this is a somewhat confusing concept.
Your hifi-set probably doesn't have separate volume controls for each
component. If you have a mixer panel, then all sliders are neatly aligned
and you don't have to go hunting for them.

This brings me to the concept of the Sensible GNOME Volume Control: each
opened program that accesses the sound server makes itself known
(preferably via DBUS with fallback for non-GNOME programs). The SGVC then
shows sliders for each of those processes, instead of incomprehensible
sliders for 'PCM', 'FM' and stuff like that ( sound sources like
Microphone and Line-In stay of course).

> now someone sends you an icq message, and you nearly become deaf,
> because it was so loud...this way you can adjust rhythmbox to be a lot
> louder than the other apps.

The SGVC could implement a Dolby-like algorithm that suppresses sound
volume above a certain treshold from the current volume.

WDYT? :-)

regards,

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