On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 02:00 +0000, Iain wrote: > Some thoughts on sounds. > > People don't use sound effects on the desktop. > One of the first things many people do is turn them off. > The only device I know where people don't turn them off is the iPod.
I turn them off on my iPod, and I turn them off on other people's phones > We have a sound naming spec[1], yet no-one seems to care to design > sound schemes for them [2] > > I think the reason for this is twofold: > a) The sound naming spec specifies too many arbitrary sounds I agree, which is why the GNOME sound capplet only shows a limited number of those sounds. > b) The sound naming spec defines so many sounds that it is nearly > impossible to a sound designer to create meaningful sounds that > differentiate between the actions The sound naming spec is a freedesktop project, so wrong list. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list