Re: Amarok, KMix: how to set sound volume for external audio adapter?
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Kenny Fairweather wrote: > On 15/03/10 17:16, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > After quite some time I've looked at Amarok again now that 2.3 has > > made it into unstable. Somehow, I'm missing a way to set the sound > > volume. I didn't find a volume slider in Amarok itself and KMix, > > too, doesn't show any controls for my external Edirol UA-1EX sound > > adapter. > > Click on the speaker, top right, to get the slider. Or scroll wheel > over the icon. Consistency may be for small minds, like mine, but is this a bit non- obvious? I had noticed the Mute functionality alright. I don't get a slider when I click on the speaker widget, rather, in order to set the volume, I have to drag along the widget's border in a circle. Thankfully, the scroll wheel does work too. I'm not blaming you, of course. To the contrary, thanks for pointing out how this thing works. Still, I can't help but notice that this widget is, to my mind, exemplary of what has gone wrong in KDE 4 -- a preference for coolness over solid functionality. As a programmer myself I can easily understand how this comes about, especially in projects that are done for fun, not money. As a user, however, I don't have to like this. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003170903.02559.mich...@schuerig.de
Re: Amarok, KMix: how to set sound volume for external audio adapter?
Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2010 schrieb Michael Schuerig: Hi, > I'm not blaming you, of course. To the contrary, thanks for pointing out > how this thing works. Still, I can't help but notice that this widget > is, to my mind, exemplary of what has gone wrong in KDE 4 -- a > preference for coolness over solid functionality. As a programmer myself > I can easily understand how this comes about, especially in projects > that are done for fun, not money. As a user, however, I don't have to > like this. I agree that the volume widget is not quite obvious to find because it doesn't really look like a volume knob. Neither does the icon inside look like a loadspeaker to me. It looks more like a rotated waffle with a scoop of ice scream. Once recognized it's easy to use though. And combining it with a mute button is not a bad idea. And to be fair, in all the announcements, the new toolbar is highlighted as experimental and user feedback is sought: "These include a new main toolbar and a rewritten and much simpler file browser. These parts are brand new and based on user feedback, and they will change and improve over the next few releases. The old slim toolbar is still available should you prefer that, but we encourage you to try out the new toolbar and tell us what you think." Cheers, Carsten (who always uses global shortcuts (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Up/Down) to control the volume) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Amarok, KMix: how to set sound volume for external audio adapter?
On Wednesday 17 March 2010, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote: > Cheers, > Carsten (who always uses global shortcuts (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Up/Down) to > control the volume) Me too, generally, but so far I didn't get it to work satisfactorily with two sound adapters, a built-in one and an external one. As I wrote, Phonon sees the external adapter and Amarok output is correctly routed there. However, KMix doesn't show the external adapter and that's why I asked about setting the volume to begin with. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003171603.49348.mich...@schuerig.de
