Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Allan Day (allanpday gmail com) said: 
> > The other day she called me as she couldn't
> > figure out how to increase the volume.  It turns out that audio was
> > muted, and what gnome-shell shows in that case is a dark gray audio icon
> > with a tiny little "X" on its corner.
> >
> > The dark gray icon (around 25% gray) has very little contrast with
> > respect to its surrounding black bar (0% gray).  The apparent contrast
> > is even less since often what you have directy below the icon is the
> > very-lightly-colored titlebar of a window (... with a white content
> > area), so the dark gray audio icon is hard to see.
>
> Seems like an obvious bug with the volume icon - did you file a report?

To echo Federico, I think it's a problem with any of the icons that use the
two-tone scheme, or a problem with the tone itself rather than the icon.

The 'inactive/background' dark gray used in the status indicators
essentially fades into the black background when used on any angle-sensitive
screen (like many laptops) - move the screen just a few degrees off the 
proper viewing angle and even though the rest of the display is perfectly
usable, that part of the status indicators is essentially invisible.

> > (... Could we add a microphone volume slider to the volume menu?  It
> > would be nice to have for those awkward Skype moments.  And about the
> > only other time I use the Sound Preferences capplet is when I need to
> > boost the volume past 100% - that could very well be in the slider in
> > gnome-shell, I guess.)
>
> We already have a microphone slider when a microphone is in use.

Given we have output volume even when it's not in use, I could see having
the mic volume there as well in terms of a 'show-before-you-start' paradigm.

Bill