Re: PROPOSAL: UISG Notification Sample Length Standardization
- From: John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>
- To: gnome-gui-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: UISG Notification Sample Length Standardization
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:05:41 -0500
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
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