Volume is a Panel Applet that puts a popup volume control in your panel. It is also a Mixer Application. It supports ALSA natively as of version 008. (for OSS and Alsa-OSS compatibility please use Volume-007 or older.)

Requires Python 2.3 and the python alsaaudio module which you can get here.

Releases

009 (2006-08-06)

• Theme updates.

008 (2006-01-16)

• Converted from OSS to ALSA interface.
• Requires PyAlsaAudio module.

007 (2005-10-12)

• Options now editable from the AppMenu.
• New Icon

006 (2004-05-22)

• Input from Cyrille Mars: mouse scroll-wheel on Panel icon changes volume without clicking.
• Input from Jonatan Liljedahl: option to show a progress bar on the Panel indicating the current volume setting (Options to show/hide the icon and/or progress bar)
• Italian translation from Yuri Bongiorno.
• Resizes with the Panel properly.
• Launch the Mixer from the popup menu

005 (2004-04-20)

• Figured out how to save/restore the state of the lock/mute/rec checkboxes.
• I think I have the whole recsrc thing worked out.
• Made the checkbox labels translatable.

004 (2004-04-18)

• Factored out the VolumeControl widget and used in both Volume and Mixer.
• Lots of configurable things via masks to VolumeControl()
• Applet control range is now 0-100 instead of 0-1 and has finer steppings.
• Applet follows panel orientation now.
• Separate options for Mixer
• Option to hide/show each channel (still can't rename them)
• Option to show values on Mixer sliders like applet does.
• Translation support

003

• Wrote a real Mixer app to replace the gnome-volume-control wrapper. UI is a straight rip of gnome-volume-control (for now at least). Needs some polish, but it works.
• Fixed a small bug reported by Antiphon with Sawfish (popup slider was being positioned wrong)

002

• Added options dialog and settings for mixer device (e.g. /dev/mixer) and the channel to control (e.g. PCM or Master volume)
• Changed the popup positioning to always be at the top of the panel and centered (?) on the icon. Still need to handle Left, Right and Top panels.
• Fixed a small bug in findrox.py.

To Do

• beep after setting the volume
• make it pop down when clicking elsewhere, like a menu does and the gnome mixer applet does (anyone know a good way to do this?)

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