From kde Wed Jul 21 15:43:57 1999 From: Mark Roberts Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:43:57 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: RFC: More sounds please X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=93257149515290 > > a) some themes should be part of the standard release. > > No they shouldn't. Themes are a waste of space to the average worker. > They are simply eye (and ear) candy. If you disagree, fine, go fetch > them. But don't burn my bandwidth and diskspace with this sort of junk. > Yes, but you can hardly call kdegames { part of the standard 1.1.1 pack} anything but "candy" under the above description :-). We also have the really useful stuff, such as moonphase mousepedometer worldwatch screensavers a large number of desktop patterns occupying your bandwidth when you download standard KDE 1.1.1, why not some .wav files ? I think a certain amount of candy is necessary to sell the product to the average user. We have a fair amount of eye-candy, just no ear-candy.  > > b) the default installation of KDE ought to come with sounds tied to > > actions > > No it shouldn't. I can't think of anything more horrible. If you want > sounds when you open menus, etc, you set them up. Don't waste my time > trying to figure out how to get rid of them. (I'd probably let a single > log on or log off sound go...) > > Actually, on reflection, if anyone puts together a theme which might > help a visually impaired user to get along with KDE, that's valid. It > would have a definite, constructive use and would therefore justify the > resources. ===================== That's a good idea.. ===================== > Not switched on by default though. > -- Perhaps not "switched on" by default - I'll go along with that - but a set of standard mapped sounds which can be turned on by activation of the single checkbox "enable system sounds". There are about 15-20 events which would require a sound, assuming about 20K per sound would only mean 400K uncompressed, hardly going to kill your modem or disk. Regards Mark Roberts -- Send posts to: kde@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" PLEASE READ THE ARCHIVED MESSAGES AT http://lists.kde.org/ BEFORE POSTING ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral