Re: PROPOSAL: UISG Notification Sample Length Standardization

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Bowie Poag wrote:
> 
> The sound sampless which are provided by the application to use as its
> DEFAULT SETTINGS, straight out of the box, cannot be longer than two
> seconds. If you want to put a sample in there longer than two seconds,
> fine -- Thats your choice. But the application itself will never use a >2
> second sample for notification purposes, by default.

I don't think 2 seconds is long enough.  I agree with the other
people who said 5 seconds would be a better length.  I think it's
a good thought, but we shouldn't bear down too hard on this one. 
It should be more of a friendly scolding than a fully-enforced
requirement.  

The style guide should have a section for (or a concrete way of
addressing) "Polite" styles, things that GNOME thinks are nice,
and civilized, but that aren't important enough to enforce.

Does anyone (other than Bowie) feel that 5 seconds is too long
for a default sound sample length?  

Or perhaps sound events need to be separated into two categories:
user events and system events, each with different sound
lengths.  In this case, I would suggest 2 seconds for user events
(mouse clicks, etc.), and 5 seconds for system events (mail
notification, etc.).  However, I think a flat 5 seconds would be
just as good (i.e. simpler, less to bicker & fret over).

John