On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 16:09 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
Actually, I think this is pretty close to the UI we want and, modulo
the input selection and one or two other technical limitations that
are being worked on, it should be nearly complete. I designed it with
help from Matthew Paul Thomas - and with oh a bit of inspiration from
a popular and highly regarded operating system. I feel very strongly
that we shouldn't be compromising our designs to cater to the lowest
common denominator of broken hardware and drivers - and definitely not
for something as easy to fix as a unimplemented feature.
I like the UI; I think you did a good job.
But we mustn't lose sight of the fact that we can't always get
everything right -- there will _always_ be a need for users to tweak
something to make it work optimally.
For example, on the two laptops I've tried with PulseAudio on F-11 so
far I can't even turn the volume right up using your UI -- I need to run
a different mixer and turn the 'Front' slider to maximum, because it
starts on about 80%.
I think it's necessary to give _conditional_ access to the full
controls, even though I agree wholeheartedly that we shouldn't expose
all that mess by default.
I think that the compromise we've settled on for F-11, where there's a
completely different application buried in the menus which many users
might not even find, is quite a poor one. It should be properly
integrated.
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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse(a)intel.com Intel Corporation