Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#4805 assigned enhancement
Sounds preference panel improvements
| Reported by: | humdinger | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Preferences/Sounds | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | mdisreali@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | #16594 | |
| Platform: | All |
Description (last modified by )
Here's a suggestion to improve the Sounds preferences panel.
The panel now (hrev33599):
My suggestion mockup:
On top, there's a dropdown menu with already saved profiles plus the entry "Save current profile..." which will open a panel to enter a profile name.
Pressing the trash symbol will delete the currently set profile. When there's <none>, the symbol is "ghosted".
It would be nice if there'd be a "Toggle mute all" profile preconfigured that would overlay the existing settings. I.e., the sound file selection is kept, but every event is muted/unmuted.
Sound profiles and window setting should be kept in ~/config/settings/Sounds/.
There's a new column "Mute" where you can quickly mute an event without having to choose "<none> for it and later having to find and set the sound file again. The symbol appearing then is supposed to be a stroked speaker. Could be improved...
Besides using MediaPlayers controls to play/pause/stop there's also its volume bar. Every individual sound file's volume can be controled with this widget. For this, an attribute is saved to the sound file.
The panel should start larger than it is now and save its window position.
Not visible: The open file dialog should provide a play/pause "pre-listen" button so you can hear it right there instead of again and again having to load/close/play/open when looking for a sound.
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Change History (10)
by , 15 years ago
| Attachment: | sounds-pref-now.png added |
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comment:1 by , 15 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:2 by , 15 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:3 by , 13 years ago
| Cc: | added |
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comment:5 by , 10 years ago
| Milestone: | R1 → Unscheduled |
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comment:6 by , 4 years ago
Keyboard, mouse, and window related sound events should be muted by default. Otherwise it would get pretty disturbing after a while.
comment:7 by , 4 years ago
| Blocking: | 16594 added |
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comment:8 by , 4 years ago
Moving my comments from the duplicate ticket:
Currently sound selection is manual. After the System Sounds Contest, to be able to package and offer different sound theme selections, we need a basic UI.
Basically it would be a dropdown to select different themes, and the backend to store the themes. A "Custom" option will be needed in order to let the user select whatever sound they like, taking the last used sound theme as base to change from.
An option to save and name these custom profiles would be neat as well.
I do not know how the current settings are stored at the moment, but a "Haiku" way to do it would be making the themes "folders" with the sound files in it (maybe a config file to associate them with the entries). User can just delete these folders to delete the theme.
Sounds panel now