Re: alsamixer idea

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:46:28 -0400,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> 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.

It sounds nice.  The only reason I didn't do this is that the
alsamixer code became too dirty for such a big change... :<

Another good idea (IIRC James proposed) is to split the
volumes/switches between playback and capture and make them
switchable.


Takashi


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