Icon spacing on volume panel is messy

[Con Sistency]

The spacing between the slider and the icons on the volume panel (when left clicking the applet) is quite different for each of them. it's trivial, but it looks bad and it's a panel that will get a fair lot of use. Screenshot attached.

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

This doesn't look like a bug in the code so much as kind of an optical illusion that's a result of the icons themselves. The spacing between the slider and the icons on the left and right is the same, but the icon on the left has more empty pixels so it looks further from the slider.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

On 23/04/10 16:35, Cody Russell wrote:
> This doesn't look like a bug in the code so much as kind of an optical
> illusion that's a result of the icons themselves. The spacing between
> the slider and the icons on the left and right is the same, but the icon
> on the left has more empty pixels so it looks further from the slider.
>

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Yes, it's a visual artifact not a code problem. Nevertheless, it's an
issue we should address, one way or another. Could you work with Otto to
come up with a solution that gets that looking perfect?

Mark

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

Subscribed Otto and Ken.. could you guys look into this? Ken, I'm not sure what package to reassign this to since it's not an IDO issue.

[Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic)]

I think the only solution that will balance the area better would be to treat the volume indicator in the same way as we do the wifi - using a tint to subtly show the unfilled volume bars rather than removing them completely as we do now.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Sounds reasonable, +1

[Vish (vish)]

Otto Greenslade (Karma: 55) wrote:
" using a tint to subtly show the unfilled volume bars rather than removing them completely as we do now."

That was how the icon was for Karmic, but it was requested to be changed to the current one with no waves, as per the sound menu guidelines:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoundMenu#Artwork%20requirements

Subscribing mpt.

btw , the icon in the screeshot is from Humanity , this is a problem in ubuntu-mono as well though.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Thanks Ken for the screenshot. Hmm... it's not as clear as I thought it
would be.

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

I think the idea can work if we add one feature: the highlighted state of the indicator should use a different icon (something closer to the light version because it is shown on a lighter background).

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

Really, this solution only makes sense. The current outline of the icons, which makes them appear sharper on a dark background has been accepted as-is but ideally we would have a different icon to reflect the change in background due to the highlighted state.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Could you mock that up as an animated GIF?

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted humanity-icon-theme into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[James Schriver (dashua)]

Resolution verified. See attached screenshots.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package humanity-icon-theme - 0.5.2.1

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humanity-icon-theme (0.5.2.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fix volume icon problems in KDE; LP: #566996.
  * Fix volume zero; (lp: #570124, #568819).
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[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to maverick as well.