Bug#323917: /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control: Want volume + balance sliders rather than left + right volume sliders

[Johan Walles]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.8.0-0.4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/gnome-volume-control


The gnome-volume-control window has a left and a right volume control 
for each channel.

I would prefer if there was one volume slider and one balance slider per 
channel.

The rationale for this is:
My speakers are placed assymetrically relative to my computer.  Thus, I 
want more sound out of my left one than out of my right one.  This can 
be done both with the current sliders and after my suggested change.

However, sometimes I want to change the volume.  With the current 
system, that forces me to mess with two sliders (left and right).  After 
my suggested change, changing the volume could be done with just one 
slider.

IMO having two sliders (left and right) for changing one value (the 
sound volume) isn't optimal.  There's a workaround for the common case 
(volume in the middle) where the two sliders can be locked to each 
other.  My suggested change would solve the problem for everybody, not 
just for people who want the balance in the middle.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gstreamer0.8-alsa [gstre 0.8.8-3         ALSA plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-esd [gstrea 0.8.8-3         Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin fo
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc        0.8.8-3         Collection of various GStreamer pl
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-6         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-22    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]   0.2.36-1        Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgail-common           1.8.4-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.4-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.1-4         LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.5-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.3-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.10.2-2        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.4-4         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-13.1     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.1-4           library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0  0.8.8-3         GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer-plugins0.8- 0.8.8-3         Various GStreamer libraries and li
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0        0.8.10-1        Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.8-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-3      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.13-1        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.20-1        GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

gnome-media recommends no packages.

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