RE: Sound

[Josh Steiner <Josh BerkeleyNet com>]

Aye! - Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Scott Goehring [SMTP:scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us]
> Sent:	Friday, August 14, 1998 3:18 PM
> To:	'gnome-gui-list@gnome.org'
> Subject:	Sound
> 
> On sound, here are my suggestions:
> 
> 1. No application shall play continuous sounds other than a game or
>    other application specifically designed for that purpose.
> 
> 2. The use of sound is completely optional.  No application (other
>    than an application whose specific purpose requires it) shall
>    require the availability of sound-generation facilities.  All
>    applications shall gracefully degrade in an environment where
>    sound-generation facilities are absent or disabled.
> 
> 3. Overly long sound effects shall not be installed by default.  An
>    effect is overly long if it is more than two seconds in length for
>    routine system events, more than five seconds in length for
>    exceptional non-error conditions, or more than ten seconds in
>    length for error conditions.
> 
> 4. The user shall be able to substitute eir own sound for any
>    default sound, or disable the sound associated with any given
>    event.
> 
> 5. Applications may offer the user the opportunity to associate a
>    sound with an event without providing a default sound for that
>    event.
> 
> (4 and 5 should probably be implemented through a library of some
> sort.)
> 
> 
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