Re: Sound themes and metacity sounds

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Sun, 22 May 2005 10:31:57 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I think the lack of metacity sounds and sound themes probably have the
> most to do with the difficulty of creating sounds - we don't seem to
> have anyone working on creating good, original sounds.

There are a fair few out there:

  http://kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=25

At the moment the only ones I can find are created for KDE, I guess
because GNOME doesn't really support them. They're often surprisingly
professional.

Right now non-hardware sound mixing is only just becoming reliable enough
that ambient sounds work well - I don't know about you guys but I normally
listen to music whilst working which makes notification/usability noises
pretty pointless unless dmix or a sound server is active. Updating the
default sounds or supporting sound/voice themes as described here: 

  http://www.advogato.org/person/thomasvs/diary.html?start=92

... would make a nice demonstration of how to use the high level GStreamer
APIs.

thanks -mike