Re: Sound

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Goehring <scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us>
To: 'gnome-gui-list@gnome.org' <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 3:19 PM
Subject: Sound


>On sound, here are my suggestions:
>
>1. No application shall play continuous sounds other than a game or
>   other application specifically designed for that purpose.


What about midi files in a web browser?

>3. Overly long sound effects shall not be installed by default.  An
>   effect is overly long if it is more than two seconds in length for
>   routine system events, more than five seconds in length for
>   exceptional non-error conditions, or more than ten seconds in
>   length for error conditions.


Three seconds, and I'm cool with it.


Re the rest of the proposal, I like it.  One note--I like the idea of ALL
commands being sound-themable, through the keybox interface...