'Twas brillig, and Olof at 12/02/11 14:07 did gyre and gimble: > Hi! > > This might be the wrong place but I didn't find anything better. I'm > using ubuntu 11.04 with pulseaudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty. > > I had severe problems getting a monitor to work because I didn't > understand that the button with a loudspeaker on the input tab in the > volume control was something one could click on. It looks exactly the > same whether the monitor is muted or not. I think there is room for > improvement here, some kind of indication that the current state is > muted and one can fix it by clicking here would be appreciated! To be honest, pavucontrol is an ugly beast! I will try to improve it when I can but it's always going to be a bit rough-and-ready, and will likely get support for new PA features first. But user-friendly and HCI-guidline based UIs are these days included in the DEs themselves. e.g. Gnome has gnome-volume-control and Ubuntu adds their own interfaces too. KDE also has their own UIs now. So while I don't disagree with you, it's probably best to focus on making the "official" user-facing apps as nice as possible. If you happen to patch pavucontrol however, I'll happily merge any patches that improve the UI :) Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
