On Wed, Dec 07, 2005, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: Broadband (fast) Internet related accessibility issues": > Alternate is not only visual signaller but also vibrator. If VoiP > software does not already export an interface usable for activating a > vibrator or a lamp (via parallel port, serial port, USB, BlueTooth or > telepathy), then such an interface needs to be added.
Can you enlighten us why VoIP software should deal with this issue at all? In my opinion, not every application should deal on its own with "alerting" the user, because a standard solution already exists: The X Windows beep. Not only does it not require modifying every little application, and it is completely standard in the X-using world (not specific to "Linux", "KDE", "Fedora", or anything of that sort), it even works when you run remote applications, like good old X was supposed to support. If you're interested, I can show you a tiny piece of code I wrote that captures these beeps, and does something else (in my case, I wanted to flash the screen, and play a fancy beep music). -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Dec 7 2005, 6 Kislev 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |I before E except after C. We live in a http://nadav.harel.org.il |weird society! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
