New mixer

[Christian Dywan]

Am Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:21:59 -0200
schrieb "Rodrigo Coacci" <rcoacci at gmail.com>:

> On Jan 8, 2008 10:02 PM, Fred Morcos <fred.morcos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In Gnome it's done by increasing/decreasing the icon's "sound waves"
> > (coming out of the speaker) using the mouse scroll. I guess in Xfce
> > it can just show a live changing tooltip with the value instead of
> > getting into image loading overhead for each level of sound volume.
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2008 1:52 AM, Rodrigo Coacci <rcoacci at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 8, 2008 9:30 PM, Fred Morcos <fred.morcos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:12 AM, Alexandre Moreira
> > > > <alexandream at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On a side note: If you're thinking on a panel plugin to go
> > > > > along
> > with
> > > > > it, how is it going to look ?
> > > >
> > > > Well, I would like to see it - comparing to the old mixer
> > > > applet - get rid of the vertical progress bar and use the
> > > > theme's speaker icon, a la gnome's volume applet style.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I like the vertical progress bar, not because of it, but because
> > > it
> > allows
> > > to up/down the volume with mouse scroll. If there's some way to
> > > keep
> > this
> > > behavior but get rid of the progress bar then it would be fine by
> > > me.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > >       Rodrigo
> > >
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> >
> 
> Hum.... Nice, I didn't know that in gnome. I don't use gnome for a
> long time anyway..... :-P
> For me that behavior is fine, I don't even find too much important to
> have visual feedback, since I suppose the audio feedback will be
> there. I just want to put my mouse over the icon and scroll to get
> volume up and down.
> 

I must say I really do find the progressbar very helpful, as it clearly
shows me the current volume level and allows me to adjust the value
very precisely with the mouse.

For what matters to me, add an option to hide the progressbar.

Yours,
    Christian