Re: Some topics - Standard for Defining a Collection

[Erik Jarvi <ejarvi megsinet net>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 02:54:21PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 asthomps ouray cudenver edu wrote:
> 
> > > 2. Definitions
> > > a. How define a sound collection: soundtheme? soundset(MacOS)
> > > soundpack?
> > > b. Sound format: *.au? *.wav?
> > > 
> >
> > I would like to propose we create a standard file format for defining
> > sound themes.  Having a single format gnome developers can use to
> > import an intire theme would be very useful.
> > 
> > Is there currently any "map" file to match sounds to events?  If not,
> > what kind of format should be used (XML)?  With map files in place, we
> > can probably work on a utility to quickly create some kind of sound
> > "package" for quick redistribution.  From these mechanisms users can
> > switch whole sound schemes quickly independantly of the WM theme.
> > 
> > Anyone else like to chime in?

Yes, I agree, but have no idea how it should be done, suffice to say that
a global and user configurability should be implemented.

> It would be great if GNOME 2.0 could load and switch entire sound themes
> at a time.  This would be very useful and should be pretty easy to do.  We
> could use an XML format to describe which file maps to which sound, or we
> could use filenames for it.  Since Elliot did the sound hacking in the
> past, I guess we need to know:
> 1) Elliot - will you be doing the sound work for GNOME 2.0?
> 2) If so, what do you think about loading entire themes at a time?

Am I missing the point here in item 2?  You want to load the theme into memory?
Feel free to flame my ignorance. :)

Erik
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