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Yes! It's now impossible to tell what your current setting is, in case you want change it and return to it later. Please return the percent values for usability/accessibility, both for audio volume and display brightness! |
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Agreed! If the maintainers were concerned about screen space, they literally could've put the percentage on the right end of the OSD. |
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This looks like a GNOME backport. |
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The Enhanced Sound applet allows you to show the volume percentage in OSD with Cinnamon 6.4: https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/306 See OSD options in the Sound tab of this applet's settings. |
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I find it a little curious that the community that constantly claims to “let users choose” is increasingly imposing its own way of doing or seeing things... |
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These choices are explained here: |
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Thank you!! |
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Maybe a check box to allow the option to keep OSD, or return to the older way with percentage indicator. You could also install volumeicon, and put something like volumeicon & in your startup list. It will also give you the percentage indicator. |
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What I find interesting...
So on the one hand he's saying that volume can change depending on the video, app, etc., and on the other hand saying you can set a keybinding to set specific volume levels. Well what if I do want a specific level, so I use a keybinding, but then the volume changes to be too loud for a certain video? Am I to set multiple keybindings for different percentages? It'd be easier if there was a single keybinding that let me lower the volume and see the percentage change as I do so. Oh, wait... |
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The latest graphical changes in Linux-Mint 22.1 represent a cinnamon regression. Several functions have been degraded or completely removed, such as the sound percentage. It's a shame! |
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A bar is a visual meter of numbers With a bit of habit it shouldn't be hard to pick the right volume, using a visual bar? I am not part of the developer team, but don't get why an exact volume setting is so important? Probably because most people use much more the left/logical side of the brain, so numbers are preferred before graphical elements. |
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Hi all, Main reasons: Cosmetic, simplicity, relevance Cosmetically, all UI looks cleaner and simpler without text. Relevance. Time increseases depending on the moment of the day. Also, time is relative: depending on whether you are near a black hole or flying around the earth or just sunbathing by the pool, it does not flow in the same way. Avoiding over-precision. This is something many people do with their watch. They care about the time too much, and I'm a legit authority to say this. Someone isn't late because they're late, they're late because time has passed. Consistency: Although time may be present on ambient mode on some TVs, TVs don't display time at any other moment. Also, removing time from UI is consistent with removing other numeric information. Precision: One of the arguments made in favor on showing time is that the user needs to quickly know the time it is. This isn't a case which makes sense since at any moment you can be early or late. Also, don't forget that time is just a way to display the position of the sun in the sky depending on the position of the Earth relative to the sun and your position on Earth. When it's dark outside, it's night. When it's light outside, it's day. With a little practice, you can learn, for your location, where the sun is the highest in the sky depending on the season (try to guess the temperature, but please do not use a thermometer, it's overrated and should be removed from stores and weather stations, I can demonstrate it), then it's about noon (make appropriate adjustments considering your timezone). Thanks for reading this troll post. |
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Ok. This went far enough and has lost all semblance of being anything productive. |
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When changing volume (using media keys) Cinnamon used to show icon, volume bar and volume percentage in the OSD, like this:
Now it only shows icon and volume bar, like this:
Can the volume percentage be also shown in the OSD ? It's much easier / practical to read the value instead of trying to guess it from the volume bar.
I hacked it by changing the method
setLevel
in fileosdWindow.js
. I inserted this linethis.setLabel(value.toString() + ' %');
after the lineif (this._level.visible) {
. That's probably not the correct way to do it, but the OSD now looks like this for me:Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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