Re: GNOME lacks audible feedback? (Enver ALTIN)

[Dan Gore <sn0wman hotpop com>]

Enver ALTIN wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I booted back to Windows XP on my notebook. It came
> preinstalled, but I only booted it 4 or 5 times, I think.
> 
> After spending about a few hours in Delphi, Corel Draw and Winamp, I
> went back to Debian GNOME 2.6 and just noticed that GNOME barely lacks
> audible feedback.
> 
> In Windows XP, a bunch of predefined events (menu popup, menu item
> selection, dialog boxes, scrolling) generate audible feedback so you
> know you really clicked it.
> 
> Though it's not a requirement, it would be fun a lot to have metathemes
> cover sound themes too, a la WinXP. Industrial theme, for example, would
> provide "industrial sounds" for events, and Gorilla would provide
> "Gorilla sounds" and so forth.
> 
> BTW, while talking about the sound stuff, I really think there's a nasty
> bug somewhere in the underlying drivers or players causing ugly audio
> quality. I'm no music expert but I can clearly distinguish between
> played-on-Linux and played-on-windows quality of the very same mp3 file.
> Anyone else?
> 
> -HAND
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You probably don't have your ALSA configuration tuned.  You have to
tweak it with alsamixer to get it to sound the way you want.
-- 
Dan Gore <sn0wman hotpop com>