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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Installed sounds (no, really)
From:       pinheiro <nuno () oxygen-icons ! org>
Date:       2007-08-28 9:08:38
Message-ID: 200708281008.38812.nuno () oxygen-icons ! org
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A Tuesday 28 August 2007 03:21:18, Jaison Lee escreveu:
> For those of you who actually remember/care what this thread was
> originally about:
>
> I tracked down the history of the .wav files as far back as I could.
> Most of them are at least 7 years old; I lose track of the trail
> somewhere around July of 2000. That's kind-of cool, but the problem
> however is with their quality. I'm don't remember what kind of
> microphones they sold back then but many of the wavs have a noticeable
> background hum. Oggenc actually does a surprisingly good job of
> reducing it, but it's still there. Including sound files with
> background hum is not in the best interests of the KDE project I
> believe. Of the few wavs that don't have hum they are at best pale
> imitations of newer sounds doing the same thing only better[1] so for
> all these reasons I feel the time has come to remove the venerable
> wavs, and I have done so.
>
> I'm still going through the oggs. These were added in 2004 by
> 'wheeler' who believe it or not, stated in his commit message that the
> wavs should be removed for KDE4.  :)  Looks like he'll get his wish.
> The quality of the oggs is fine, so they shouldn't be arbitrarily
> removed.[2] With any luck, there will be duplicates between the Oygen
> and current sounds and save us all the trouble of bickering over this
> more.
>
> [1] I gotta admit that I really like KDE_Startup.wav and
> KDE_Critical_Error.wav, but mostly because they remind me of the
> sounds my old Atari would make. :)
>
> [2] There are definately too many *Desktop* and *Event* oggs. I'll try
> and _very carefully_ prune those down. There were also a couple oggs
> that were obviously copied from the wavs and I removed those also.

OK great work, can we make themes? So a user can choose the sounds acorthing 
to a group of sounds or individualy? 
That would IMO be a much cleaner way to deal with this stuf and heven 
had/remove  stuf, couse it would define the bounderies alot beter..
Thanks again, I think its a good midle term solution :).

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