Sound naming spec: problems with prefixes

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Thu Jul 17 15:16:57 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 19:58 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> > I've targetted 30-odd sounds (including the bell) to be user modifiable
> > in the preferences:
> 
> I hope by "modifiable" you mean "being able to turn them on or off"
> not "setting the sound file to use." It would be an overkill. 99% of
> users either disable all desktop sounds or just want them to work.
> They're not going to spend days searching for a perfect "burp" sound
> to go with their windows closing. And if they do, they'll probably rip
> it off of some other theme thus learning how to make a custom sound
> theme as they go.

No, being able to change a few of the sounds is what's planned. Looks a
bit like the attached screenie.

Cheers
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