Comments on: Sound Indicator

By: mpt

mpt — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:24:48 +0000

Unfortunately Jono has oversold this a bit. As many of you have pointed out, the menu obviously is not “well designed, implemented and sleek”, yet. It’s pre-beta software, and there are many things still to be tidied up. The spacing and alignment will be fixed. The appearance of the buttons will be fixed. The unhelpfully short title will be fixed. So, don’t panic.

By: mpt

mpt — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:07:13 +0000

Yes, there are many details still to be tidied up.

By: Eddward

Eddward — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:21:57 +0000

Aside from the issue that others have already pointed out, it does look nice. But will it only work for users using pulseaudio? I have to disable pulse to get acceptable sound. I currently have no sound indicator in lucid as a result. The sound indicator in the notification area vanishes with PA and I have to add my own icon to launch a mixer.

By: Kai Mast

Kai Mast — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:43:13 +0000

I find it really ugly that you try to merge everything in to as few indicators as possible. I have a 1440x900 and already a lot of space with the current setup.

Let me use my vertical space

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:36:57 +0000

As long as the scrollwheel works as expected, I don't care whether it is horizontal or vertical. i.e. scroll up ? louder, scroll down ? decrease volume.

(I hate totem for seeking in the opposite direction than what I expect with mousewheel, amongst other reasons)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:17:27 +0000

On my laptop, volume certainly goes from left to right. It’s marked out right there on the buttons above the keyboard. Same on my iPod. Same on the thing that pops up on my TV. My speakers, on the other hand, have a dial. Clockwise=louder. Maybe we should have a nice circular volume slider?

By: Jones Lee

Jones Lee — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:11:20 +0000

Nice work, imho Mute All and Sound Preferences should be hidden. User can go in Control Panel to change the Sound setting if they like.

By: Jer

Jer — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:45:48 +0000

It feels well designed, implemented and sleek.

I disagree, it feels hacked in. The idea is good though. This is a much nicer layout:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24627/

By: Joern Konopka

Joern Konopka — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:14:03 +0000

I think the controls maybe could Be integrated nicer, but they sure look like some .png graphics so i’m gonna mess with them anyways. I’m a little astounded how few seem to have read the docs for the indicators,otherwise it would Be known that the UI Team is Smart enouh to figure out that duplicated applets make Little to no Sense and this won’t be reproduced until october.

By: Forest

Forest — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:20:02 +0000

I like the idea but it looks very unfinished to me. For one, those pause/back/forward buttons look out of place with the rest of Ubuntu’s theme. The shading on them looks cheap; I think it would have looked nicer if they had gone with a simpler design, like a simple white silhouette of a pause/back/forward symbol.

I also agree with Corey that the horizontal volume changer == fail; it confuses me every time I use it in Lucid, and also, it’s weird the way that the album’s title is chopped up with dots in the middle. And then there are spacing issues with that huge amount of padding at the bottom.

Actually, the more that I think about it, I really do not like this sound menu.