Re: [Usability] Mute in GNOME mixer applet does not have correct behavior

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:11 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 19:57 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Current behavior
> > ----------------
> > 
> > There are 5 icons in GNOME to show the volume of an audio card
> > 
> > "stock_volume-mute": A speaker with a red X
> > "stock_volume-0": A speaker with no sound waves
> > "stock_volume-min": A speaker with one sound waves
> > "stock_volume-med": A speaker with two sound waves
> > "stock_volume-max": A speaker with three sound waves
> > 
> > The behavior of the mixer applet is the following:
> > 
> > volume(x)	Icon
> > ----------------------
> > mute		mute
> > 0		mute
> > 0 < x < 1/3	low
> > 1/3 <= x < 2/3	med
> > 2/3 <= x < 1	max
> 
> Since mute is an orthogonal operation to the volume setting,
> perhaps the muted icon should continue to show the actual
> volume setting.  So if you mute at 80%, you'd see the icon
> maybe grayed out a bit with a red X over it, but still with
> the three lines.  You can actually still change the volume
> while muted.
> 
> It might serve as a nice indication that unmuting may blast
> your ear drums out of your skull.  Just a thought.
> 

I really like this suggestion, blasting music/sound out of your PC is
sometimes really annoying in public. 

Rodney, do you think these icons: "min-mute, med-mute, max-mute" can be
added to the icon spec?

Jaap