https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494120
--- Comment #2 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- If I had to give details, I think I would point to the following: 1. There are two devices in the list (HP Screen speakers and Sound Blaster DAC mic) that I literally never use. If I could permanently hide them, that would help reduce the visual noisiness. 2. The sliders being very long and width filling makes the dialog feel stuffed and busy, which gets worse the more devices are in it. This issue also affects the KCM for me, FWIW. 2. Being able to see volume/recording level sliders for devices that aren't currently in use feels useless. I only ever want to adjust the level of the active device, because I can get audio feedback that the level is correct. If I adjust the level for a device I'm not using, I have no way to verify the change, so I never do that. I don't understand the library use case you brought up; here you just hit the mute button on your keyboard, no? If you're in a library, you brought your laptop, and all laptops have mute buttons. No need to find the mute button specific to the device that's playing audio and go click it. 3. Most of the time when I open this popup, it's to switch devices. The way you do that is with the radio buttons, which are the smallest UI elements in the dialog — very small click targets. These are also the only visual indicators of which device is active. It's very subtle. 4. Items are distinguished only by text label. These text labels are all left-aligned, but each of them has a slider right below it. This inhibits my ability to scan quickly. I think icons would help, yeah. They would need to be user-configurable like the names. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
