Re: Sound

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Goehring <scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us>
To: Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky <effugas@best.com>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Sound


>"Dan" == Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky <Dan> writes:
>
>>> 1. No application shall play continuous sounds other than a game or
>>> other application specifically designed for that purpose.
>
>Dan> What about midi files in a web browser?
>
>That would constitute an "application specifically designed for that
>purpose".  (Although I personally think that background music on web
>pages is evil.)


Amen. Up there with blink.

>Dan> Three seconds, and I'm cool with it.
>
>Three seconds for which one?


Standard "doodad" sound effects should be up to 3seconds.

>Dan> Re the rest of the proposal, I like it.  One note--I like the
>Dan> idea of ALL commands being sound-themable, through the keybox
>Dan> interface...
>
>I am afraid that I have no idea what you're talking about. :)


Keybox basically sez that anything you do should be able to have a
keybinding generated by the user, and the user should be able to make
keythemes to trade.  Welp...if you can assign a keyboard command to
something, why not a sound?