Re: Sound

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

Sounds okay.  I'll still cut all my sounds down to under a second anyway.

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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Scott Goehring wrote:

>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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