Comment 10 for bug 13185

> as indicated in the name "line-in" is an input for the sound card ...

Yes, from a technical point of view, it makes sense. But I thought that the
purpose of a GUI was to be user-centric and let the user interface with H/W in
ways that make most sense to him, not the H/W... it's the guy behind the
Keyboard that needs to get work done with the machine, not the sound card ;o)

>I'll ping upstream about this, but the possibility to customize tabs is not easy
> to do without complicating the UI and the code.

Well, sure. I didn't mean that it was easy, and I hardly expect it to be done
for Hoary. It's a feature request, which needs to be discussed and can take some
time and effort to implement, unlike bugs, that need sorting asap.

> BTW I'm not sure than your usecase is the standard one.

Definitely !! ;o) That's why I am happy to leave the two panel things as
default, and only want the channel sorting mechanism to be available as an
option, even an obscure one, in Gconf or something. As long as the feature is
there available somewhere, it's all that matters.

> The app should act on the right volume level (ie: the gnome applet on the
master volume, the cd player
> on the CD one, a TV viewer on the line use for the TV, etc).

Yes, definitely. The problem is that the volume control in Rhythmbox and Totem,
don't work well on my machine. For some reason, it doesn't react instantly,
there is always a lag of second or so, it's not reponsive - wheras if I use the
volume mixer, every works instantly, no lag. XMMS volume control works fine
too, but I try to use Totem instead as it's a Gnome app so looks better on the
desktop.
I have not used Gnome's CD player for a while, now that I have rippe dall my
Cd's with Rhythm box, but IIRC the volume control worked fine

I don't know why Totem and Rhythmbox are have this responsivness problem, which
also affectr all their other controls : stop, next/previous, pause etc. None of
the control react instantly. I posted about that ages ago on the list, but noone
answered. So either everyone is happy with that, or I am the only one
experiencing this.
But, if that's not just me and it's a fact, then, assuming they can fix it
completely, I will happily stop using the volume mixer, as it will only make the
dekstop cleaner/more tidy :o)