KMix mixer window needs layout rethink

[Ronny Bangsund]

Binary package hint: kdemultimedia

I've got an Audigy 2 ZS sound card, and just for fun, I switched on all the controls available.
This got me a window wider than my 1680x1050 resolution allows. If anyone with a smaller
screen needs to display many controls (musicians, sound technicians), they'll need to drag
the window left and right to access all sliders.

This isn't a serious bug, but it puts ugly into an otherwise nice desktop. Check the screen
size and split across several lines, maybe.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

You might want to report this at http://bugs.kde.org as well, it increases this issue gets addressed.
If you do so, please post the report's URL here, so that we can link it.

[karl (karl-sebastian-liebich)]

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

[Christian Esken (esken-kde)]

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.

[Simonbraunstein (simonbraunstein)]

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.

[Christian Esken (esken-kde)]

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

[FiNeX (finex)]

bug #204918 suggest to have two rows of sliders.

[FiNeX (finex)]

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

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Seeing as this is a wishlist item and that we don't really currently have the resources in Kubuntu to implement this, I am closing this bug here. If and when the KDE Multimedia team implements this feature, we will pick it up in the next Kubuntu release. In the meantime you can track this feature request at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178689 . Thanks for understanding.

[deichschuh (deichschuh)]

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).

[FiNeX (finex)]

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

[Christian Esken (esken-kde)]

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.