Re: [Usability] New Sound Preferences and Volume Control

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 6 Dec 2008, at 06:39, Kirk Bridger wrote:

> Thanks Andy, great points.
>
> I think we have a basic question here that nobody is really asking:  
> are users going to want to adjust volume per app?  Yes, I know some  
> of us may, but would users really use it?
>
> I'd be curious about Vista's experience with it - Vista can do this,  
> can't it?

CDE (on Solaris, at least) could do this years ago, too... I dunno if  
any of the people who worked on that are still here at Sun, but if  
they are, I can try and find out the reasons that it was believed to  
be a useful feature at the time.  (Of course, what was thought to be  
useful then mightn't be so useful now...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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