• From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
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Topic: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

Hi,

small idea, lets see what all other cog users do think about it.

At the moment
If i press the loudness button the slider pops up and i can control loudness with mouse-clicks

how about adding a mouse-wheel function ?

Idea A:
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i.e.
if the slider is pop'ed up & mouse is in the sliders focus wheel-up & whell down could control the slider

would be much smoother then just by clicking i guess


Idea B:
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if mouse is over the loudness button, without having clicked to pop-up the slider, mouse-wheel down & up could change loudess. in best case with a visual feedback, like a small bar inside the icon. dont know if that is possible with usual button's




feedback ? improvements ? critic ?



best regards
fidel

Last edited by fidel (2008-02-02 02:20:32)

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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

I like it. Especially the second suggestion, as it would skip the extra step required by pressing the button.

I don't know if it is possible to a thing like this, but it would be pretty ingenious.

Just one note. It should be coupled with some kind of representation of the current volume (outside the slider in the button). It could be numbers or whatever,

Cheers

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
  • Posts: 58

Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

regarding the visualization....amarok does exactly that
Just move on the Tray Icon in kde and you can control the level with a small bar indicating the level.

  • From: Germany
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

seems like most ppl are happy with the way it is at the moment.
Ok lets close this thread hmm

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

Nah, I like the idea. Just haven't gotten around to actually doing it. I also wanted to add tooltips to the volume control, but just haven't gotten to it yet.

  • From: Germany
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

I have used it, but I've never been a user. I've started it up and checked it out. It probably won't look much like Amarok's. I was thinking just something similar to a tooltip would pop up and display the volume when you hover over the button. I also want the tooltip to appear when dragging the slider.

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

i'll let surprise myself by your development / how you implement it big_smile


best regards
fidel

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

Hello,

i would like to ask if the idea is somehow in the long-term feature-plan. Like 0.1 or something like that ? Would be great to know how to keep tracks of long-term planned features.


best regards
fidel

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
  • Posts: 58

Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

Hi - anyone working on that ?

*sorry for double-posting- but seems like the idea gone lost*

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

The idea isn't lost. It's still there. Still just an idea though. The toolbar in general needs some work, and I will probably do this when I fix it up.

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

I've updated the volume control so it listens to mouse wheel events and displays the volume in a tooltip. Let me know if there are any issues!

  • From: Germany
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

Sorry for the late response i was travelling the last 4 weeks.

regarding the new loudness controll:
* till now it works like a charme here
* big big big improvement from my point of view
* big thanks once again to you for this great player.

gonna play more with it in the next days - gonna feedback if i notice any strange behaviour or similar.


Best regards
fidel

  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2007-07-31
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Re: Improve loudness-control with your mouse-wheel

No issues at all - just works like a charme in my daily usage.

I guess a small improvment is still possible but far away from needed and i'm not even sure if its technical possible at all.
If the loudnesss-icon would include a small bar which would represent the actual state it would be a nice addition.

Like a small bar which represents the full range and a diffrent coloured filling displaying the current state.


But as pointed out above .... that would be just a small eye-candy improvement.


Best regards & once again thank you Vincent


fidel