Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

[Frederic Peters <fpeters 0d be>]

Andreas Nilsson wrote:

>> Anyway, I'll dive into the matter and point everyone to the currently
>> developed gnome-volume-control (hosted in gnome-media/ repository).
>> Here is how it looks like:
>>
>>   http://www.0d.be/captures/sound-prefs-pane-4.png
> Minor icon usage nitpick from a artist. What purpose does the Sound and  
> Media category icon (applications-multimedia) serve in this dialog 
> exactly?
> Just wanting to make sure that it's not a "let's put a image in there to  
> make it look a bit more cute" situation.

I believe it is just used as a placeholder at the moment, to be
replaced by the icon of whatever application is playing the sound.
(at least pavucontrol knows the name of the application, so I think
it is doable for gnome-volume-control too).


        Frederic