Bug 461384 - Volume changing UI is nonstandard and a bit awkward
Summary: Volume changing UI is nonstandard and a bit awkward
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dragonplayer
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2022-11-03 21:55 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2022-11-26 05:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Nate Graham 2022-11-03 21:55:52 UTC
1. The "Volume" button's text doesn't begin with a verb, as the HIG commands
2. Clicking on said button shows volume controls in a side panel, rather than a popup or something
3. It's kind of odd that the volume controls aren't visible by default in the first place; this is the more standard thing for video and audio players.
Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2022-11-15 21:31:40 UTC
That is kind of by design. The user is expected to scroll wheel to change the volume as primary choice of interaction. That said. 1 Needs fixing and perhaps to remedy the problem a bit we could add a label to the volume toolbar that informs the user they can also scroll on the video widget to change volume - making it less of a hidden feature. Not having UI volume controls by defaults plays towards the minimalism goal of dragon.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-11-16 17:16:17 UTC
I get that Dragon is intended to have an extremely minimal UI. I think I'd be okay with #3 being intentional if #1 and #2 were changed.

Mentioning scrollability in the tooltip is a good idea as well. You reminded me that we need to do this for plasma-pa: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/-/merge_requests/149