Sound Icon in e.g. Rhythombox and Totem makes it hard to tell the volume

[Tomasz Chrzczonowicz]

Binary package hint: light-themes

No matter what volume you set Rhythmbox and Totem to (save for muting), the icon has 3 thin, vertical bars. You can only tell the volume from the color of those bars, and the color isn't very distinctive either.

Volume level should be indicated by the number of bars (like in the sound applet), not by their color.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: light-themes 0.1.6.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 18 16:03:40 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pl_PL.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: light-themes

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.

For the visually impaired user, this can be detrimental to use of the system. We do rely a lot on being able to hear the system sounds and screen-reader speaking, without disturbing other people around us. Not being able to determine where the volume is set easily makes that difficult.

Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!