Re: Volume widget comments

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

Hi Rui,

On Mar 8, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> As for that bug's main point which was about interface space being
> wasted I don't think totem has really become better with the
> introduction of the button widget[1]. I see a lot of space there  
> where a
> scale widget could be introduced (actually I liked totem more when it
> was like that although the implementation wasn't as refined as the  
> one I
> mocked up).

Actually, it was exactly the same as you mocked up: min / max icon  
buttons + scale. there was a bug report and support for it being  
changed to a "RB-like" volume button, but Bastien disliked it because  
of the extra click. I fixed that by writing this new widget. My  
opinion is that all agreed it was nicer.

I guess everyone has different opinions. Some like compact, some like  
extended interfaces. We have to use something that suits us all.

> > * other GNOME apps use a button + icon (e.g. RB, panel-volume-applet)
>
> This is not an argument. What if said apps all used a scale?

But they don't. All maintainers appear to agree a button is nicer.  
Aaron asked me to relicense and rewrote it in c# just to get it in  
Banshee. Surely, if it was not worth it, he wouldn't have done  
that... It gives me the impression that the majority of the projects  
likes the widget more than a plain scale.

> Yhea, sure. And it shows... Well, this is free software, a  
> meritocracy.
> You wrote it, so your vote counts and mine doesn't. We can still  
> discuss
> the status quo I think.

Look at it from the bright side: once in gtk+, you could patch gtk to  
make it a scale, just for you, and you'd have your scale while we'd  
have our button. :-).

Ronald