newmail.wav (was Re: I'm new to balsa and can't get it to work ...)

["David M. Stowell" <dmstowell ameritech net>]

On 2002.03.30 14:30 Michael Broaddus wrote:
> I bet these complaints will only get more common as balsa gets more 
> "average" users.  I don't mind changing default sounds but apparently 
> this really bothers some people.  Instead of packaging newmail.wav 
> (fairly obnoxious and unchanged since 12/98 when pavlov checked it 
> in) could we just link to /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav 
> (gnome-audio-extra) or something
> similar?  We could of course create a new sound, but I'm no artist in 
> that area.  I hate to think people might be bad-mouthing a great email
> client over something this silly.

I just tested the current sound.

Yep, that's obnoxious.

I'm a computer musician by trade, so I could whip a sound to spec if 
you all are interested. We really should get rid of the current one.

David Stowell