sound control on 18.04

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 1:50 PM Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 1:38 PM Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 2:00 PM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 13:14, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>>> > this is GNOME vs unity7 and (sadly) normal design...
>>> >
>>> > in gnome only very few things work directly through the indicators and
>>> > typically take you to an app to set things...
>>> >
>>> > there might be extensions that allow you to make gnome behave the way
>>> > you want though, i'd take a look at http://extensions.gnome.org/
>>>
>>> What Oliver said. :-(
>>>
>>> If I must use GNOME I use tools like Extend Panel Menu:
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>>> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1201/extend-panel-menu/
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>>> ... to give me more functional volume/system/etc. controls.
>>>
>>> I wrote about this and some other tools I find useful here:
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>>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/57630.html
>>>
>>> But also see:
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>>> Why I don't use GNOME Shell
>>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/52807.html
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the developers of GNOME are attempting to simplify it
>>> by _removing_ features. I think this is a doomed, futile approach:
>>>
>>> On GNOME 3 and design simplicity
>>> https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/58328.html
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>> I tried the Extend Panel.  Unless there is a way to add to it, it's not
>> useful.  Sounds like you are right about Gnome 3.
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>> Thanks
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>> garyk
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> Topicons shows promise.  weather shows without my having to click on
> anything, as well as core temps, drobox, pcloud.  Volume control still does
> not get me directly to sound source choice, nor the direct connection to
> rhythm box and VLC.   Minor issues in the scheme of things, of course.
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> garyk
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Added the sound output device chooser, which works about as I would like.
However once I added it the toppanel stopped working.  I removed the sound
device chooser and reinstalled topicons but no luck.  The topicons are more
useful.

thanks

garyk
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