From kde-core-devel Sun Dec 21 10:39:28 2003 From: David Faure Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 10:39:28 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: RFC on default settings X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=107200325025258 On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:07, George Staikos wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2003 05:00, David Faure wrote: > > > Visual is bad because beeps are often used to indicate when actions > > > are completed as well (such as a file transfer). If you aren't looking > > > at konsole, you'll never know. > > > > That is not true. A bell appears in konsole's tab, so you can notice it > > even afterwards. > > Which requires you to........ look at it. Yes, which you'll do at some point (you said "never"). > > I really prefer visual notifications over sound notifications. In an office > > One of the first things I do is turn off all sounds. However on my desktop > I enable beeps in konsole. On my laptop I don't. On my laptop I constantly > miss konsole events, whereas on my desktop I do not. Actually I never notice > the visual change even when I'm working in konsole at the time. I have > somehow mentally tuned it out, which is not good. Even with the passive popup appearing? Then I can only recommend new eyes :) ... or turning on the beeps, if we decide to turn them off by default. Oh well I won't convince you, I guess :) -- David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).