Re: GTK & SOUND

[Valdis Kletnieks vt edu]

On Thu, 03 May 2001 19:19:56 EDT, Paul Davis said:
> No doubt. Its all a question of design. I didn't want to imply that
> there was never a use for sound. But if your mail program wouldn't
> tell you who mail was from anyway other than "speaking" it, I think
> you'd accept that it was badly designed. Why is this different than a
> program that does other things *only* via a sound interface? I don't
> think it is, and I worry that people will write programs that assume
> that sound can be used to convey important information. That
> assumption is not valid; the fact that its true often means that sound
> is a useful adjunct to program function, but it should never be the
> core of it. Thats all I want to get at.

On the IETF lists, this is often referred to as "violently in agreement". ;)

What you *originally* said was:

> And then when you're done, you should reconsider the reasons why you
> want to do this, because unless its an audio program there is almost
> never a good reason for it.

which sort of rubbed me the wrong way.. ;)

/Valdis