[SOLVED] RE: Kubuntu 7.04 And Sound

[Rashkae]

jack wrote:

>> Not odd at all.  Those little green buttons are your mutes.
> Not to belabor the point, but in most apps - red is the universal
> indicator for 'stop'... green is the universal indicator for 'go'...
> so when a light on a channel can be light or dark green, yellow, orange
> or red, even as experienced as I am, I get the feeling that the same
> idiot that designed the Homeland Security terrorist alert system
> designed these button colors...
> 
> Red = mute / Green = unmute ... seems simple enough... 5 colors meaning
> - what? - (1) off, (2) might be off, (3) could be off or on, depending
> on how you look at it, (4) on, but not loud, (5) turn it down, you're
> breaking my eardrums.
> 

I agree that the design here is a little wonky... A classic example of 
using a 'skin' instead of universal UI elements causing confusion (in 
this case, the correct approach would have been a little "Mute" Check 
box., or a mute push button with a descriptive icon.

However, in the Kmix application, these colored orbs are meant to look 
like a LED indicator light, and are either illuminated or dark.  None of 
them are multi-color.