Re: Desktop sounds in Gnome

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 16:22 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 19/03/07, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 laposte net> wrote:
> >> So, will gnome 2.20 play nice sound when disk is burn, sound volume
> >> increased, mail received/sent, new RSS item available, etc. ? Would the
> >> system sounds be themable like icons are ?
> > 
> > It would be great to theme these like we can icons.
> > gnome-power-manager just needs to play a "battery low" chime, and
> > linking to gstreamer seems very heavyweight.
> 
> I love the fact that OS X has just one "system beep" sound. It makes 
> things super simple from a user perspective. Do we really need, and do 
> users really care about, different sounds for questions, information, 
> battery low, etc.
> 
my personal opinion is no, we don't need all that. So, the question is,
are there users that use and like this functionality?
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>