Re: Sound effects

["Chris Lahey" <clahey clahey net>]

I like your idea for what sounds should be played, but I don't
understand how it isn't solved by creating a butler sound and putting
it in place of all of the sounds you think it would make sense for.

I suppose this does make it harder to change the sound, but you can
just make a configuration app that lets you set what that sound is and
creates a theme on the fly.

I was gonna comment about how I like having a separate sound for the
gdm login screen, but then I realized that could be the butler sound
too.  However, I think that I only want the butler to tell me when gdm
login is ready and when I get an IM and not make any other noises at
all.  This would be impossible for me to set up with your scheme.

The brunt of this email is, why not make a sound theme that does
exactly what you've requested?

   Chris

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Iain * <iaingnome gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote:
>
>> Come one. First you claim the list of defined names is too large. Then
>> you claim it is incomplete. Then you want only a single sound for
>> all. Now you want to distuingish the events. Hey, make up your mind!
>
> Thats not what i've said at all.
> Nicely twisted into a meaningless strawman.
>
> I think the list of defined names is too long.
>
> If you are attempted to define a list of all possible different things
> that may have different sounds then the the list is incomplete.
> I was highlighting this to show that it is impossible to define all
> possibilties before hand in some spec, not to claim that I want more
> sounds.
>
> I want a single meaning for why a sound has happened. I want a simple
> answer to the question "should my application make a sound in this
> situation?"
>
> I don't want to distinguish events.
> I want the user to be able to know that when they hear a sound that
> there is something that may need their attention.
>
>> You know, we define 125 sounds. It's up to you which ones you link
>> to the same file and which ones you don't define at all. We already
>> give you the power to do whatever you want.
>
> And thats completely NOT what I want and has missed the point.
>
> But I see that no-one else cares
> So I shall stop caring as well.
> And this is my last mail on the subject
> Enjoy
> iain
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