Re: [Usability] Volume Control Consistency between Rhythmbox and Totem

[Boris Goldowsky <boris alum mit edu>]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:28 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> This brings me to the concept of the Sensible GNOME Volume Control: each
> opened program that accesses the sound server makes itself known
> (preferably via DBUS with fallback for non-GNOME programs). The SGVC then
> shows sliders for each of those processes...

Yes!  That's precisely what I've been wishing for since I started
putting music on my computer.  If programs have individual volume
controls, that's fine (if done consistently, as the original poster was
suggesting), but some programs that send sounds (such as Gaim, or gnome
event sounds) don't and shouldn't have volume controls in their
interfaces.  Seeing all sound-sending programs in the volume control
applet's "mixer" would be great, and far more usable than the current
applet.

> 
> > now someone sends you an icq message, and you nearly become deaf,
> > because it was so loud...this way you can adjust rhythmbox to be a lot
> > louder than the other apps.
> 
> The SGVC could implement a Dolby-like algorithm that suppresses sound
> volume above a certain treshold from the current volume.

Having a software "limiter" would be great - there are plenty of times
when you don't want all the dynamic range that your sound system can
produce.

Bng