alsamixer idea

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

With my soundcard (emu10k1), and a 21" monitor, running in a maximized
xterm with a small font, only about half the mixer controls fit on the
screen - I have to scroll to the right to see the rest.  Worse, the
names are truncated to 8 letters!  Yet, the screen is mostly empty
space.

Why not just make the mixer controls horizontal?  You would easily be
able to fit them all on the screen, with the full names, or at least you
could truncate them to something reasonable like 32 characters, and you
would still have the same amount of space for the mixer.  The only
drawback I see is that it might not be cross-cultural, though I don't
see why the volume increasing left to right is any less intuitive than
bottom to top.

At the very least it could have a horizontal mode that could be toggled.

Lee




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