I just noticed this change in the sound menu and I’ve very pleased so far with the progress!
The sound indicator as of July 12, 2010.
The menu is beginning to take shape nicely, but don’t get too excite just yet. While the back, forward and pause/play buttons do indeed work, they don’t currently have any mouse animations. By this I mean that there is no visual change when you click them as you would see in a regular button. The pause button also doesn’t toggle back to the play button.
Eventually the menu will gain a few more features as are displayed in the following mockup.
Official mockup.
After the song progress bar and time are inserted, there won’t be much more to look forward to usability-wise other than the playlist sub-menu’s. I’m sure there will be several tweaks and adjustments coming along after these features work their way in, but they seem to be piecing things together in a very orderly fashion!
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This is a cool feature for sure, but wouldn’t it be better suited to click on Rhythmbox in the notification area rather than the volume adjuster?
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.70
Ideally, the Rhythmbox icon will be disabled and the sound indicator will become the new method of interacting with your media player of choice.
The sound menu at its current state offers more information and actions than the Rhythmbox menu. Comparatively, the sound menu currently has two things more…album title listed as well as album art.
When it gets playlist and song progress updates it will be far beyond the current Rhythmbox menu, pictured below.
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60
Oh alright. If it is *replacing* the Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok, etc. icons and is the goto place, then I definitely see the benefit. I saw in your screenshot that there was still an icon for Rhythmbox–hence my confusion.
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need to add a progress bar of our songs