I put my volume replicant on the top right of the desktop so I can still see it when a window is at the top of the screen (it lives to the right of the window tab).
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The wrench icon that allows you to control a replicant is tiny and requires sniper mouse movement.
Itās not even a wrench, but a tiny āholdingā hand
You canāt blame them to not see that itās an hand; itās really too tiny in that case. Ideally, it should be HiDPI aware and scales up with fonts like borders, controls etc. It shouldnāt grow too big either (unless an autohide/autoraise feature is added).
Shouldnāt be too hard to fix actually. Probably slipped past from sight while doing HIDPi fixes.
Thanks to sharing with me - but I shared this bit of my tactics with Haiku to strenghten my advice and perspective of it. My post was about (re)sizing a replicant - the placing (where to put on the desktop) I let anyone as they wish.
I just answer to you as I was surprised - from my point of view - this tiny aspect made you answer me about all I wrote.
If you would have shared your desktop as it is a main goal of this thread we all may understand this better, as for me the top right corner is allocated to
Deskbar,
and next to it Shredder or Trash (Iām not sure the name of all objects in English as all translated into Hungarian)
And it is not and only annoying thing in Haiku in case precise mouse handling.
More application window enables to resize a window if you grab precisely the one and only right bottom corner where this is altogether is a thin, some pixel wide place of the window.
Also donāt like I have to use this place every time, on all windows,
even if I want to resize into one direction only :
horizontally
or
vertically.
If I forget thos ā¦ I just move the window, just as in case when I would/should use modern, really thin scrollbars of today browser and application windows.
I see rather āsophisticatedā, customized desktop screenshots which look nice, no doubt about it. My personal preference is a plain desktop with as less as possible stuff in it. To that end I think the default desktop fits nicely, including the background image and color. So I opted to changeā¦ nothing, other than adding some shortcuts. Therefore I donāt have a screenshot worth posting. Maybe I should autohide even the deskbar as well, but no, itās useful, not to mention I like the leaf logo.
Iām not saying you should do the same, Iām just saying minimalism has its charm.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-ExupĆ©ry, Lā Aviateur, 1926.
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Thanks, This way I understand your option to place the sound volume replicant there 
It is really also ALWAYS visible.
Unless I do a lot of stackingā¦
Is that BeAMP running in Haiku?
Which dock are you using in bottom of the screen?
Itās Dockbert
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My guess its CL-amp.
no its Qmmp.
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Since everybody does it and itĀ“s all for good fun I thought IĀ“ll join in with a screenshot of my Haiku Desktop on my bare-metal Haiku machine running x86_64 nightly. This is a fairly typical session when IĀ“m using Haiku, with the exception that IĀ“d probably have Web+ maximized on another workspace and I wouldnĀ“t care if the background image was visible.
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Same here (and I guess most of us do) 
Got 10 Workspaces assigned, the last one is mostly used to checkout new stuff
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