User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060313 Firefox/1.6a1 (Swiftfox) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060313 Firefox/1.6a1 (Swiftfox) Implementation of check-boxes to Mute, and also Record-Enable, individual mixer channels. Hopefully would be easy to implement, and immensely useful to people who deal with audio frequently in their work. Reproducible: Always
and completely useless - but in the way - for the rest. Not adding for 4.4.0, maybe later.
(In reply to comment #1) > and completely useless - but in the way - for the rest. I completely disagree with the above statement. As is often the case, when I've setup Xfce for non-technical people who use VoIP apps like Skype, Linphone, Ekiga etc, almost always, the issue lies in unmuting, for example, the headphone and capture channels. The GNOME volume applet is aesthetically simple and includes mute/un-mute capabilities, making it trivial to configure the above. By "the rest" you're clearly thinking of technically proficient users and not your typical desktop end-user. Xfce is a DE, not a shell for techies. I think any modern desktop cannot lose sight of making important features accessible to all.
When you tune the volume up from zero, it will unmute. When you tune the volume down to zero, it will mute. The only use for a mute button would be if you carefully set your volume to some value and want to mute for a short time, but afterwards return to the previous volume. Usually the app in question already includes something like that, because then one doesn't have to guess which control it is on.