SoundMenu work

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Aurélien Gâteau at 12/07/10 13:06 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> One thing I totally failed to discuss with you Amarok devs during
> Akademy was the Sound Menu in Maverick Meerkat, the upcoming version of
> Ubuntu. In case you don't know what this is about, have a look at this page:
> 
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu
> 
> Right now there is only a Gnome implementation in the work, but I think
> it is interesting for you to get involved because:
> 
> - Amarok is one of the few KDE apps which is used by quite a few Gnome
> users (AFAIK).
> - At one point, a KDE version will be implemented. Even if I doubt it is
> going to happen during Maverick cycle, it makes sense to have some KDE
> people involved early.
> 
> This development is discussed on a dedicated mailing list on Launchpad,
> which you can join there:
> 
>   https://launchpad.net/~indicator-sound-developers
> 
> There are already a few developers of other media applications (VLC,
> Exaile, maybe others) subscribed.

We did have a bit of time to discuss the sound menu at the KDE
Multimedia sprint not that long ago. Harold wrote up the results of that
here.

I didn't see your name on the responses to that message, so here is the
link for reference in case you missed it.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.kubuntu/4427

There was broadly support for the initiative, but the icon names were a
point of contention. I think upstream would basically be prepared to
commit the relevent patches provided that the graceful fallback to the
non-sound-menu mode worked fine and the changes themselves were
generally minimal and sensible etc.

Am I right in saying that Conor is working on the Gnomey side of things?
(I'm sure I've discussed some of the inner workings related stuff with
him in the past).

Col

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