[GSoC] Project: KMix2 Sound Menu

[Trever Fischer]

On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 19:52 +0200, Josef Filzmaier wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I am Filzmaier Josef, a student seeking for a Google Summer of Code mentoring 
> organisation. I found myself quite happy with the KDE philosophy of doing 
> things and therefore using KDE for several years now on all my computers. I 
> found your proposal of intagrating an ubuntu-like new sound menu into the 
> plasma workspaces system tray very appealing because i don't think the current 
> one reflects the philosophy and functionality of the KDE standards very well.
> 
> While on the one hand i think the SoundMenu approach of ubuntu is quite good i 
> for myself am missing certain functionality
> 
> First, I am a user of veromix and am liking the ability to separately control 
> the volume of certain applications. I think there should be an option to show 
> volume controls for media players and applications.
> 
> The second thing i am not so sure about is the fact that you can not easily 
> change the output device of a certain application, like you can do with 
> pavucontrol or veromix. I think there should be a right-click option to change 
> the output device, like it is now with the kmix interface.

Both of these are implemented in the kmix-improvements branch, though I
can't testify to their reliability or usability.

> 
> I just wanted to share my interests and thoughts for this project, before 
> applying to it on Monday.

It is most excellent that you're so interested in volume sliders :P
Can't wait to see your application :)

> 
> Thank you for your attention and happy hacking!
>