[Bug 179542] Re: KMix mixer window needs layout rethink

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On 2008-12-24T19:32:29+00:00 karl wrote:

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

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On 2008-12-29T23:56:08+00:00 Christian Esken wrote:

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.


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On 2009-04-15T19:24:36+00:00 Simonbraunstein wrote:

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.

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On 2009-05-10T17:47:20+00:00 Christian Esken wrote:

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

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On 2009-08-26T02:08:09+00:00 FiNeX wrote:

bug #204918 suggest to have two rows of sliders.

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On 2009-08-26T10:59:01+00:00 FiNeX wrote:

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

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On 2011-05-27T21:15:29+00:00 deichschuh wrote:

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).

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On 2011-05-27T23:46:01+00:00 FiNeX wrote:

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

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On 2012-10-04T00:20:28+00:00 Christian Esken wrote:

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.

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       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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