[rox-users] Re: [rox-devel] ANNOUNCE: ROX Volume applet

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

On Apr 7, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Tristan McLeay wrote:

>  --- Ken Hayber <kh...@so...> wrote: > Hiya!
>>
>> I just released Volume into the ROX wilderness.
>> Just a simple python applet to control your sound
>> volume.  Trying to make it at least as good as the
>> gnome mixer applet.
>>
>> It also has a wrapper for the gnome-volume-control
>> application so it has something to do if you run it
>> as an app instead of an applet.
>
> You might want a full volume control option (or
> somesuch) in the menu...

Yeah, gonna do that.

>
>> Still lots to do, but it works* so I'm releasing it.
>> Get it here
>> (http://khayber.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/Volume)
>
> I'm not sure if it's known or nomal, but when I ask
> for Options or Info, I'm informed it has no attribute
> 'show_options' or 'get_info' resp. I presume it's
> normal and just icky programming on your part :P

LOL.  Made my day.  Yeah, just haven't got to that part yet.
Hey its 001 dammit!  Release early, release often.

> More importantly, a required feature for me is the
> ability to chose which volume control to change. My
> laptop has a different vol. control for the headphones
> and main speaker; master only controls the latter. (I
> suspect it might need ALSA to find it, though: I can't
> find the volume control in gnome-volume-control, only
> gnome-alsamixer.)

I'll see what I can do with OSS and then look into python bindings for 
alsa.

> Also, I dunno about the icon... I was staring at it
> for ages trying to work out what on earth it was meant
> to be till I realised it represented a volume control
> slider... I'd at least ask for a bit of space between
> the circle and the triangle! (But a speaker with
> 'sound waves' coming from it seems to be the standard
> in the Gnome world, and I see nothing wrong with
> stealing theirs.)

Hey, complain to jimmac. :-) This is the stock_volume icon from the 
Gorilla SVG theme.
I'll see what else I can find.