Sound controls do not belong in notification area

[windsurfer]

The sound controls icon in the notification area does not belong there. It does not notify about anything. It belongs as an applet to be added to the panel according to the Gnome HIG: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en

To fix this, the notification icon should be an applet.

[Koen_VL (koenvl)]

Sound control is an applet, called "volume control"? :-s

I have a laptop with multimedia keys, whenever I push the vol+ or vol- button I get an update of the volume level in the notifications area which is very useful!

I don't seem to understand your trouble, could you explain? :-)

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 421575, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Adam, the HIG needs to be taken into context fully an not in part, see the bug 421575