> > 6. User is away from the computer - louder notifications > > This can be detected automatically in many cases through the screen > saver.
You talked (in comments I snipped) about presentation mode for presentations and movies, which I totally agree with. But what about music presentation mode? I have speakers in my house outside my office. Sometimes, I play music to listen to around the house, especially during parties and such. The music is clearly the most important thing, even though my screen is locked. > By the way, I don't see a need to control the volume of multimedia > applications separately. If you think of it, unless you are a multimedia > freak who enjoys playing five videos simultaneously to show the power of > his processor, you don't want to play more than one think at a time. > Either you have some music or you have a movie running, and that's it. > This means that a single slider for multimedia volume should suffice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_Oz ;-) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
