A sound or music when your desktop is starting?

[David Nielsen]

fre, 18 08 2006 kl. 03:16 +0530, skrev Rahul:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> > tor, 17 08 2006 kl. 23:19 +0200, skrev Damien Durand:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> What do you think about a sound or music when your gnome ok kde
> >> desktop is starting? It's just an idea :-)
> > 
> > Not by default at least, it would add to startup time and general
> > annoyance - it's hard to find sounds that please everyone if not
> > impossible. 
> 
> The same can be said about artwork for example. That by itself isnt a 
> good argument.
> 
> Now I'm all for say collecting a package of nice sutle
> > sounds that the user can install for some audio feedback but I don't see
> > the case for enabling it by default. 
> > 
> > In my experience most users who want this will add soundclips from the
> > internet of say their favorite cartoon or something like that. I doubt
> > we'll gain much by forcing a default "bling sound" on everyone. 
> >
> 
> We would only "force" sounds as much as we force a wallpaper or a window 
> manager theme on everyone. Without good (defined as not being too long, 
> jazzy etc) default sounds this particular functionality wouldnt even be 
> realized by the user.
> 
> I for one wouldnt mind seeing a few different sound themes available in 
> Fedora Core with one of them enabled by default.

I take it you haven't been in cubical hell when someone hasn't turned
his builtin speakers off and the Windows startup sound goes off - or in
class when the same thing happens. 

Artwork doesn't generally annoy passersby, collegues or classmates,
sound can very easily.

Now I'm in no way against showing off by assembling some cool packages
of sounds that we can do it, but by default I'd prefer silence.

- David