On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:35 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:25 -0400, Jordan Saunders wrote: > > Since my foray into Linux, there have been a few things that have > > annoyed me and a few more that have made me curious. Firstly, the volume > > control panel applet can only adjust one channel at a time, and my > > master channel only controls the front speakers. So when it's at zero, > > there is still sound from my back speakers. I would like to make it a > > project of mine to fix this to get a better grounding in Linux > > programming, but I'm not sure if it'll be accepted into the CVS. What I > > would like to do is change it so that you can select more than one > > channel to change at a time, and to unify their volume. I don't want to > > step on anyone's feet by coding this, but I would like to help out with > > Gnome, and this is the first thing that I saw that I didn't like and I > > could fix. > > I would say just fixing the volume control applet so the one slider > controls both front and back speakers is the way to go. Having more > than one slider seems wrong in the applet since the volume control > capplet should have a way of individually adjusting the channels. > Yeah. That's what I meant by "What I would like to do is change it so that you can select more than one channel to change at a time, and to unify their volume." You'd select the channel[s] you want to change, and actually changed them using one volume adjuster.
> > Another thing I've wondered about is testing things like the core > > desktop environment or library. It just wouldn't be very practical to > > reinstall Gnome every time one makes a tiny modification, so what would > > be the "routine" in that case? > > You just make install the library you are working on, not the entire > desktop. Also check out jhbuild. Using jhbuild will allow you to do > development without touching your main desktop. > I'll look into jhbuild, thanks. - Jordan _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
