Bug 178689

Summary:	window too large when displaying all channels
Product:	[Applications] kmix	Reporter:	karl sebastian liebich <karl.sebastian.liebich>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Christian Esken <esken>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caionnew, cwales, finex, simonbraunstein
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description karl sebastian liebich 2008-12-24 19:32:29 UTC

Version:           3.0 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.27-9-generic

The window gets too large when displaying all channels. And there is no Window bar for scrolling. Resizing of the window is impossible.

greetings
karl

Comment 1 Christian Esken 2008-12-29 23:56:08 UTC

There is another wish like this, and when I heppen to find it again, I'll mark this as dup. For now I'll change this bug report to the wishlist. 

As a workaround, you can move the window, or even better. Hide some controls: Displaying all controls is unnecessary nearly in all use cases.

Comment 2 Simon Braunstein 2009-04-15 19:24:36 UTC

Problem persists in KDE 4.2.2. Some sort of scrolling mechanism would be nice. At certain font sizes kmix is hard to use. Even alsamixer do a better job in presenting you a large amount of sliders.

Comment 3 Christian Esken 2009-05-10 17:47:20 UTC

Sure it persists. Nothing has changed, because I am seeing this as a purely theoretical issue. Or do you actually need all those sliders?

Comment 4 FiNeX 2009-08-26 02:08:09 UTC

bug #204918 suggest to have two rows of sliders.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2009-08-26 10:59:01 UTC

*** Bug 204918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 disabled account 2011-05-27 21:15:29 UTC

I am unable to reproduce this in 4.6.2, is this problem still valid? (I noticed that there has been some work on KMix).

Comment 7 FiNeX 2011-05-27 23:46:01 UTC

yes, the bug is reproducible: if you have a small resolution screen (1024x768) and a lot of channels (example: 15 channels) the window is larger than the screen

Comment 8 Christian Esken 2012-10-04 00:20:28 UTC

I evaluated it, and do not plan to add a scroll bar [1]. There are plenty of workarounds like:
 - Show only required controls
 - Move the window instead of a scrollbar
 - Add more Tabs (playback, capture), and divide the controls between the tabs (so each tab has less controls)
 - Use Pulseaudio, then you have much less controls

[1] I evaluated it, and adding a scroll bar leads to other problems. For example, it is not clear whether I am allowed to resize the window myself at all, e.g. when a new card is plugged in, configuring the view, rebuilding the GUI or when application streams appear. Also Multihead display configurations (with different resolutions) can lead to trouble.