Thibault, thanks for the interesting suggestion. You're right that
having the active player at the top would mean consistent movement, and
less movement required, to access the playback controls.
However, it would also mean a player could jump around often in the
menu. Consider that you have ambient music playing in a music player.
Without stopping it, you play a brief video (a sports clip, say, or a
news item, or something else that isn't musical) in a browser that
integrates with the sound menu. In the sound menu, the browser would
jump above the music player, because it's the newest player; then when
video ends, it would jump below again, because it's no longer playing.
I'm not sure whether that would outweigh the benefit, and it's hard to
tell because 13.10 is the first (and hopefully only) Ubuntu version to
show playback controls for multiple players at once. I'll look at this
again after 14.04, but in the meantime, contributors are welcome to
produce a PPA for testing the behavior you suggest.
** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Confirmed
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UX – active sound source should be at top
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