On Friday 13 March 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > A Divendres, 13 de març de 2009, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure: > > On Thursday 12 March 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > What's the need of such plasmoid when we already have kmix? > > > > i assume you asked the same thing about kicker's mixer applet? > > No because the kicker's mixer applet is clearly an applet while that > screenshots show me nothing but a total copy of kmix window interface.
iirc kicker's applet: * allowed one to pick which channels to show * allowed one to split channels into left/right * allowed one to mute channels * allowed one to pick which device you were controlling which is pretty much exactly what kmix did and does. you didn't complain then, and in fact seem to be defending the kicker applet. if you think kicker's applet was ok, it would be silly to come out against a plasmoid because they are the *same thing*. now, what i see in this proposal is to create a plasmoid that is essentially what the kicker applet was with some new features. to play a thought experiment: if someone had added those same features to the kicker applet, how many objections would there have been? my bet would be on "no complaints". anyways, "it was in kicker" really isn't a good enough justification. what i'd expect from a plasmoid (or a kicker applet; and, btw, this is where the kicker applet failed miserably) would be: * the ability to *easily* select what was being controlled * in small spaces an icon that just controlled the main channel, and popup the whole mixer interface (e.g. as a Plasma::PopupAppplet does) when clicked on making it actually useful on small panels * the ability to define what the main icon was, and have more than on copy of that applet showing so i can have a couple different mixer set ups should i so desire * sensible defaults that aren't geared towards "control everything" but towards "control the common things, allow display of controls for everything if configured as such" * good looks the use cases are: * quick "always on" access to your mixer from the desktop interface that blends nicely with other similar controls (aka "freeing it from the system tray") * showing the controls in "non-desktop" places such as a media center containment or on the screensaver so others or even you yourself can adjust volumes without unlocking the system as to "joining forces with kmix", what features does kmix need/lack in your opinion? the per-application controls? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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