Re: New way to change volume

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

Hi, 

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 06:39 +0200, �vind Hoel wrote:
> I thought we had this..?
> 
> I rarely if ever touch the pcm control - I only use the volume applet
> if I need to adjust my volume levels quickly up or down.  The volume
> applet controls the master volume.
> 
> Say, I have rhythmbox and totem running, I can adjust the volume
> coming out of rhythmbox via its builtin volume control - this doesn't
> affect the pcm setting, only rhythmbox output. Same goes for totem -
> so I don't see your point, except maybe that you want to add these
> app-specific adjusters to the mixer?

Another potential use case which might make sense is if a person wants
to turn down the system sounds or start up sounds while still having
banshee playing music. I realize this would probably be configured
somewhere else (ie sound config tool), but assuming that we will
continue to think off interesting methods of interacting with the user
using sounds, it is something to consider. 

I saw a microsoft program/tool that did this sort of thing in one of the
early longhorn builds. I have no idea what the link is though :/

Eric