A sound or music when your desktop is starting?

[Marco Bertaglia]

No, definitely, no sound by default, after all Open Soft is all about
Free Choice

I don't want any reminescence of the "blue screen of Death" ;-))

Cheers
Marco

On 17/08/06, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
> 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
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