Re: [rox-devel] Re: Volume applet

[Ken H. <kh...@so...>]

On May 16, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:

> On Sun, 16 May 2004 13:51:52 -0700
> Ken Hayber <kh...@so...> wrote:
>
>>> On 2004.05.16 21:54, Ken Hayber wrote:
>>>> On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:15 PM, Cyrille Mars wrote:
>>>>> hi Ken,
>>>>> I made a small modification to your Volume applet to enable
>>> volume >> modification with mouse wheel.
>>>>> I'm joining volume.py
>>>>> Cyrille<volume.py>
>>>> Thanks, but why is this needed?  Scroll wheel works fine for me
>>>> without it.
>>>> Does anyone else have Cyrille's problem?
>>> in fact this patch enable volume changing without clicking on the
>>> icon, just mouse wheelling on the volume applet
>>
>>  Ahh, I didn't realize the purpose.  I suppose this would be best with
>>  a set of icons that represent the approximate volume.
>
> Why not just put a little numeric label on the applet?
> Or a very tiny vertical progressbar...

Laziness?

Seriously, I see 3 possibilities:

1) Different icons for, say 3, 5 or 10 steps.  Gnome uses a speaker 
with 'sound waves' that get bigger and more of them.  If we keep using 
Jimmac's icon we would have to move the slider left to right.

2) A label/text overlay that is always shown.  Mac OS X does this for 
Mail.app, showing the current mail count.

3) Use a tooltip.  The problem with this is that it only shows when you 
highlight it and only updates (I think) when you move off and then back 
over it.  A benefit (to some) is that it only shows when you highlight 
it.

Votes?


RE: progress bar: the Gorilla icon IS a progress bar of sorts.