Re: Sound effects

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk> wrote:

>  * New email arrived, sure it can be configured but this would be nice
> on default
>  * Urgency hints, if an application in the background suddenly wants the
> users attention it would be alright if a little boing or pong
> (onomatopoeia you've gotta love it :) to inform you that something you
> haven't had in the foreground for a while wants your attention, the
> blinking of course is good but sound would help too.
>  * System updates available
>  * Download's complete (firefox, bittorrent etc...)
>  * Copy/Move complete (nautilus)

These are all under the class of "something has happened which you did
not specifically ask to happen and may require your attention"
And so would be perfect candidates to have the sound.

>  * Device inserted or ejected

Interestingly, this is hovering between two categories
Stating the obvious and "something has happ....."
Device inserted, well, I know I've plugged the device in, I remember
having to take 4 goes to line up the USB connector correctly
But mounting the device is an automatic thing so it should have the sound.
Its a weird and interesting edge case.

> So killing >ALL< sounds is a bit silly

No-one was talking about killing ALL sounds.
I was talking about replacing the myriad of sound effects that we have
with one sound.
A sound that is easy to learn its meaning, unlike 125 random sounds.

iain